Hello all, this is my first post here, so I hope I don't screw it up :) I've been looking at the Question/Answer stuff on sockets, and I'm haven't found anything addressing my problem. Basically, I'm trying to send a string over a socket, and not necessarily to a webserver, but I'll use that in my example, and check the return value for a certain string. I can do the check no problem, its actually getting the stuff to check that has been a problem. I use IO::Socket to set up all the socket stuff. I can 1) send the string over the socket, and 2) output the return stuff. However, after all the stuff returns, it just leaves me hanging . . .the rest of the code doesn't execute. From the commmand line (linux), if I do a 'telnet www.espn.com 80' and then 'GET /index.html HTTP/1.0', it'll return the html stuff, then exit out. However, I think whats happening in my program is that the remote host is closing its connection, but my side is staying open, still waiting for more input. Considering I'll be looking at various things like webservers, email servers, etc. I can't set a had value, like look at 10 lines, then exit. I'm not sure how to check if their connection has been closed. Sorry I'm being so wordy, but thanks ahead of time. 
use IO::Socket

$ip = "204.202.136.31";  ## www.espn.com for fun :)
$port = "80";
$socket = IO::Socket::INET->new(PeerAddr => $ip,
                      PeerPort => $port,
                      Proto    => "tcp",
                      Type     => SOCK_STREAM) or die "@";

print $socket "GET /index.html HTTP/1.0\n\r\n\r";
while (<$socket>) {
  print $_;
}
close ($socket);

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In reply to IO::Socket leaves me hanging by sky50

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