Hey there dear monks. I've been extensively learning perl for a week now through books, coding and your guidance. However, I lack the time for serious in depth research on the subject of socket programming while in a hurry due to my educational program to grasp some basics.

Heres the deal: Been writing a webcrawler which would run through the links on a given website and check for their availability. Oh, and im also very stuck. Heres the code: 

 use strict;
use IO::Socket;
use local::lib;


print("Welcome to my webcrawler, \n Please specify a url in the 
following format : www.xxx.y \n");

chomp(my $yourURL=<STDIN>);

my $sock = new IO::Socket::INET  (
                                  PeerAddr => $yourURL,
                                  PeerPort => '80',
                                  Proto => 'tcp',
                                 );

 die "Could not create socket: $!\n" unless $sock;

print ("TCP Connection Success. \n");

send($sock,"GET http:" . $yourURL . "HTTP/1.0\n\n",0);

my @response=<SOCKET>;

print("@response");

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and here is the input and response i got in cmd:

C:\Users\User\Desktop>Crawlertst1.pl Welcome to my webcrawler, Please specify a url in the following format: www.xxx.y www.google.com TCP Connection Success.

What I expected was getting the url servers response printed using my @response var. That doesnt happen. Please help^^

In reply to My Crawler script by Sary

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