I'm not sure I'm understanding you correctly, but it somehow sounds like you want to subclass IO::Socket or IO::Socket::INET, and override selected methods with your own implementations (?)   Calls to other methods would then be forwarded to the superclass... 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

package IO::Socket::WhatEver;
use IO::Socket::INET;
use base "IO::Socket::INET";

sub connect {
    print "doing my own stuff in connect()...\n";
    my $sock = shift;
    return $sock->SUPER::connect(@_);
}

package main;

my $mysock = IO::Socket::WhatEver->new(
                 PeerAddr => 'perlmonks.org',
                 PeerPort => 'http(80)',
                 Proto    => 'tcp',
             );
# ...

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$ ./883113.pl
doing my own stuff in connect()...

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Instead of calling $sock->SUPER::connect(...) in the overridden method (which eventually calls the connect() builtin), you can of course also call your own low-level connect() implementation... provided it does something which is compatible with what the regular builtin would do.

In reply to Re: Typeglob substitution in objects based typeglob by Anonyrnous Monk
in thread Typeglob substitution in objects based typeglob by OlegG

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