Thanks, that sounds promising... unfortunately I must admit I'm fighting a bit with it (I don't often use the OO interface I must admit). Can you tell me what's wrong with this (just a skeleton, without added funcitonality yet, and only for http)? 
use strict;
use LWP::UserAgent;


package MyHttp;

use vars qw(@ISA);
require LWP::Protocol::http;
@ISA = qw( LWP::Protocol::http );

sub _new_socket
{
  my($self, $host, $port, $timeout) = @_;
  my $s;
  print "Creating New socket: $host, $port, $timeout\n";
  $s = $self->SUPER::_new_socket($host,$port,$timeout);
  print "ok\n";
  return $s;
}


package main;

LWP::Protocol::implementor( http => 'MyHttp' );

my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new(ssl_opts => { SSL_verify_mode => 'SSL_VER
+IFY_NONE'},);
$ua->agent('Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.1; Triden
+t/5.0)');
$ua->max_size(50000000); # 50MB at most
$ua->timeout(45);

my $request = HTTP::Request->new(GET => "http://www.google.ch/");
$request->protocol('HTTP/1.0'); # we don't want chunked replies
$request->header('Accept' => '*/*');
$request->header('Accept-Encoding' => '');   # we don't want packed re
+sults
$request->header('Connection' => 'Close');
$request->header('Cache-Control' => 'no-cache');
my $resp = $ua->request($request);

if ($resp->is_success)
{
  my $data = $resp->content;
  print "$data\n";
}

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it produces: 
$ perl porttest.pl 
Creating New socket: www.google.ch, 80, 45
$

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As the first test message is printed, _new_socket is called - but obviously calling teh SUPER::_new_socket somehow fails (unfortunately I don't get any error message). Actually even if I don't overwrite anything, it does not work. Maybe some kind of constructor must be added (isn't it taken from the base class by default?)?

In reply to Re^2: LWP: How to find out local port number? (ISA) by klaymen
in thread LWP: How to find out local port number? by klaymen

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