Many people assume "telnet" is a simple raw network connection, and is thus suitable anytime you want to connect and test some TCP port. This really isn't the case. There is, in fact, a "telnet protocol" that describes all sorts of terminal negotiation. No doubt, this is what Net::Telnet was built for, so no, I don't expect this was what you were wanting.

Try using a simple IO::Socket to set up a TCP connection to your web server. You can then freely read and write to it as you need to. 

my $s = new IO::Socket::INET ("www.example.com:80")
   or die "Couldn't connect: $!";

print $s "GET / HTTP/1.0\n\n";
if (<$s> =~ /HTTP\S+ ([345].*)/) {
   die "Error: $1";
}
...

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An alternative (as another poster mentioned) is to use the LWP modules, which offer a complete HTTP client library. 
use LWP::Simple;   # or you could do more advanced stuff

my $results = get("http://www.example.com/");
if (!defined($results)) {
   die "Error!";
}
...

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In reply to Re: using Net::Telnet to test Apache by Fastolfe
in thread using Net::Telnet to test Apache by meonkeys

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