my $remote = "perlmonks.org";
my $port = 80;
my $iaddr = inet_aton($remote) || die "no host: $remote";
my $paddr = sockaddr_in($port, $iaddr);
my $proto = getprotobyname('tcp');
socket(my $sock, PF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, $proto) || die "socket: $!";
connect($sock, $paddr);
syswrite($sock, "GET / HTTP/1.0\r\n");
close $sock;