Fellow monks,
I fear I'm missing something obvious, but for the life of me I can't figure it out. The code below is the minimal case for what I'm trying to do. $Socket->connected doesn't return false when I'm disconnected unless I try to send further data to the other side of the connection. It just keeps reading empty strings from the socket (which, without blocking on, is exactly the same as being connected but not having data on the line). However, when I use netstat, it says that the connection is quite clearly closed. I need the while loop to exit when I'm disconnected, as is expected. What am I doing wrong?

Here's the code...

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use IO::Socket::INET;

my $Socket = IO::Socket::INET->new(PeerAddr=>"perlmonks.org:80") or di
+e;
$Socket->send("GET /404 HTTP/1.0$/$/") or die;
while ($Socket->connected) {
    $Socket->recv(my($Byte),1);
    if (length($Byte)) {
        print "Byte: $Byte$/";
    } else {
        print "No byte.$/";
    }
}

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Here's perl -V:

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 8 subversion 1) configuratio
+n:
  Platform:
    osname=linux, osvers=2.4.21-1.1931.2.307.entbigmem, archname=i386-
+linux-thread-multi
    uname='linux bugs.devel.redhat.com 2.4.21-1.1931.2.307.entbigmem #
+1 smp sat jul 5 11:55:51 edt 2003 i686 i686 i386 gnulinux '
    config_args='-des -Doptimize=-O2 -g -pipe -march=i386 -mcpu=i686 -
+Dversion=5.8.0 -Dmyhostname=localhost -Dperladmin=root@localhost -Dcc
+=gcc -Dcf_by=Red Hat, Inc. -Dinstallprefix=/usr -Dprefix=/usr -Darchn
+ame=i386-linux -Dvendorprefix=/usr -Dsiteprefix=/usr -Dotherlibdirs=/
+usr/lib/perl5/5.8.1 -Duseshrplib -Dusethreads -Duseithreads -Duselarg
+efiles -Dd_dosuid -Dd_semctl_semun -Di_db -Ui_ndbm -Di_gdbm -Di_shado
+w -Di_syslog -Dman3ext=3pm -Duseperlio -Dinstallusrbinperl -Ubincompa
+t5005 -Uversiononly -Dpager=/usr/bin/less -isr'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=define use5005threads=undef useithreads=define usemulti
+plicity=define
    useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
    use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
    usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='gcc', ccflags ='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DTHREADS_HAVE_PIDS
+ -DDEBUGGING -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_S
+OURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/usr/include/gdbm',
    optimize='-O2 -g -pipe -march=i386 -mcpu=i686',
    cppflags='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DTHREADS_HAVE_PIDS -DDEBUGGI
+NG -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -I/usr/include/gdbm'
    ccversion='', gccversion='3.3 20030623 (Red Hat Linux 3.3-12)', gc
+cosandvers=''
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=1
+2
    ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t',
+ lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=4, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='gcc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib
    libs=-lnsl -lgdbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lpthread -lc
    perllibs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lpthread -lc
    libc=/lib/libc-2.3.2.so, so=so, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.s
+o
    gnulibc_version='2.3.2'
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-rdynami
+c -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.1/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE'
    cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib'


Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): 
  Compile-time options: DEBUGGING MULTIPLICITY USE_ITHREADS USE_LARGE_
+FILES PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT
  Locally applied patches:
        RC2
  Built under linux
  Compiled at Jul 11 2003 23:02:08
  @INC:
    /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.1/i386-linux-thread-multi
    /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.1
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.1/i386-linux-thread-multi
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.1
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
    /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.1/i386-linux-thread-multi
    /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.1
    /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl
    /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.1/i386-linux-thread-multi
    /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.1
    .

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-BronzeWing

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