use Socket;
use IO::Handle;
$host="www.google.com";
socket(S,PF_INET,SOCK_STREAM,0);
S->autoflush(1);
$s=sockaddr_in(80,inet_aton($host));
if (connect(S,$s)) {
  print "connected to $host\n";
  print S "GET \/ HTTP\/1.0\n\n";
  read(S,$data,100) || die;
  close(S);
} else { die "connect failed\n" }

print $data;
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use strict;
use Socket;
use IO::Handle;

my $data;
my $port = 80;
my $host = inet_aton('www.google.com') or die 'unkown host';
my $protocol = getprotobyname('tcp');

socket(SOCK,AF_INET,SOCK_STREAM,$protocol) or die "socket failed: $!";
my $dest_addr = sockaddr_in($port,$host);

connect(SOCK,$dest_addr) or die "connect failed: $!";

print STDERR "connected to host\n";
print SOCK "GET / HTTP/1.0\n\n";

SOCK->autoflush(1);
read(SOCK,$data,100);
close(SOCK);

print $data;
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use strict;
use IO::Socket;

my $data;
my $port = 80;
my $host = 'www.google.com';

my $socket = IO::Socket::INET->new(
   Proto => 'tcp',
   PeerAddr => $host,
   PeerPort => $port,
) or die "socket failed: $@";

$socket->autoflush(1);

print STDERR "connected to host\n";
print $socket "GET / HTTP/1.0\n\n";

$socket->recv($data,100);

print $data;
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