use Socket;
use CGI;

my $page = connect_host() or die "$!";;
print "$page";
flush(SOCK);

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) or die "$!";
        connect(SOCK, $remote_host);

        print SOCK "GET / HTTP/1.0\015\012\015\012";

        my $html = <SOCK> if(defined(<SOCK>)) or die "$!";
        return $html;
}

sub flush { select($_[0]); my $t=$|; $|=1; $|=$t; }

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New error message is Connection reset by peer at ./pcs.pl line 29.
amt

In reply to Re^5: Fetching HTML Pages with Sockets by amt
in thread Fetching HTML Pages with Sockets by amt

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