Hello

Where is your debugging code? I mean: perl gives you all the means of tracking down the errors, yet I don't see you used any of them. Let me explain:

• You need to put #!/usr/bin/perl -w in the first line to get warnings.
• You should use strict.
• You should always check return values.
• When an error occurs, print out the error (using $!):

  if (connect(S,$s)) {
    print "connected to $host\n";
    print S "GET \/ HTTP\/1.0\n\n";
    read(S,$data,100) || die "Error Reading: $!\n";
    close(S);
  } else { die "connect failed: $!\n" }
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• Read the perldocs carefully as the socket function clearly states: You should "use Socket", and the read page states: Returns the number of bytes actually read, 0 at end of file, or undef if there was an error. . So, at the read line, you should do my $lines = read(...); die "Error Reading: $! \n" unless defined $lines;
• Check out the LWP and LWP::Simple for doing HTTP get, and save yourself the headache.
• If you really want to do raw protocol level communication, then use the IO::Socket::INET for a clearer more OO interface to sockets.

Hope this helps,,,