Web Page - IO::Sockets

Mitch has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

OS: Windows 2000, Perl: ActiveState 5.6.1

Hi,

I'm trying to use IO::Sockets to get a web page. I'm not using LWP::UserAgent, because of Microsoft Proxy/NTLM issues,

http://www.perlmonks.com/index.pl?node_id=271214

I am unable to get the page the connection times out. I'm also running the test code from the proxy to avoid any NTLM issues for the time being.

use  IO::Socket;
$socket=IO::Socket::INET->new(
                Proto => 'tcp',
                PeerAddr => 'www.nai.com',
                PeerPort => 'http(80)');
print "... $socket\n";

# http://www.nai.com/us/index.asp

print $socket "GET /us/index.asp HTTP/1.0";
open (OUT, ">out.txt");
while (<$socket>) {
    print OUT;
}
close (OUT);
close $socket;
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The output I get is...<br><br>
HTTP/1.0 408 Request Time-out

Server: AkamaiGHost

Mime-Version: 1.0

Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 14:54:57 GMT

Content-Type: text/html

Content-Length: 163

Expires: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 14:54:57 GMT

<HTML><HEAD>
<TITLE>Request Timeout</TITLE>
</HEAD><BODY>
<H1>Request Timeout</H1>
The server timed out while waiting for the browser's request.<P>
</BODY></HTML>
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Thanks.

Mitch

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Re: Web Page - IO::Sockets by gellyfish (Monsignor) on Jul 07, 2003 at 15:24 UTC
The server will not send a response until it sees the end of the headers which is indicated by a blank line. You should change the line: `print $socket "GET /us/index.asp HTTP/1.0";` [download] to `print $socket "GET /us/index.asp HTTP/1.0\r\n\r\n";` [download] Hope That helps /J\	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Re: Web Page - IO::Sockets by Mitch (Sexton) on Jul 07, 2003 at 15:45 UTC
Thanks for getting back to me. The \r\n\r\n did send the request through, but the response comes back as an invalid Url. If I put the path in the browser I am able to get to the page? `<HTML><HEAD> <TITLE>Invalid URL</TITLE> </HEAD><BODY> <H1>Invalid URL</H1> The requested URL "/us/index.asp", is invalid.<p> </BODY></HTML>` [download] Mitch	[reply] [d/l]