Gentlemen,
I am attempting to retrieve a web page from a server using sockets and HTTP commands, due to limitations of my server.
Here is my code segment
use Socket;
use CGI;

my $page = connect_host();
print "$page";

sub connect_host {
        my $remote = gethostbyname("football.fantasysports.yahoo.com")
+;
        my $proto  = getprotobyname('tcp');
        my $port   = 80;
        my $remote_host = sockaddr_in($port,$remote);
        socket(SOCK,PF_INET,SOCK_STREAM,$proto);
        connect(SOCK, $remote_host);

        print SOCK "GET / HTTP/1.0\r\n\r\n";

        my $html = <SOCK>;
        return $html;
}

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When executing the code, I recieve the following error:
Use of uninitialized value in string at ./pcs.pl line 16.

Thanks in advance.

amt

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