I am working on a site for a rpg, my employer wants me to tell how many users are online and such, the server generates a htm doc located at xxxx.com/webstats/yyy.htm . All I want to do is open this file. The problem is I am not on the same machine as the file. I've tried using sockets but can't get it to work. I don't even Know if I'm doing it right. I'm using the 
use IO::Socket;
my $sock = IO::Socket::INET->new(PeerAddr => 'www.xxxxx.com',
                                 PeerPort => '81',
                                 Proto => 'tcp'
                                 );
while (<$sock>){
      print;
}

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For some reason it either hangs up or doesn't print anything. Can anybody tell me whats wrong?

Andrew

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