Hi, I'm currently pulling data from a remote HTTP server as follows: 
my $url = new URI( $myhttpAddress );
my $host = $url->host;
my $port = $url->port || 80;
my $path = $url->path || "/";

my $socket = IO::Socket::INET->new( PeerAddr => $host
                      ,PeerPort => $port
                      ,Proto    => 'tcp'
                      ,Type     => SOCK_STREAM );

die "failed to establish socket\n" unless $socket;

$socket->autoflush(1);

print $socket "GET $path\n",
              "Host: $host\n\n";

$firstRec = <$socket>;

if ( defined $firstRec )
{
    print "$firstRec\n";

    while ( <$socket> )
    {
        print "$_\n";
    };
};

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However, my question is this... if I test this with a completely bogus HTTP address, data is returned as such: 
Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0

Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 20:18:30 GMT

Content-Length: 4040

Content-Type: text/html
....
....
....

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How can I test the socket-connection, w/o actually parsing the data returned for "404 Object Not Found"...? Is there any way to check a return-code somehow? I've tried various different things, but to no avail. Any help greatly appreciated,
Thanks,
MatthewFrancis

In reply to IO::Socket error-checking by MatthewFrancis

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