Thanks for the swift reply =) I think I'll try using the read function then, instead of <FILE>.

My test environment is actually for an HTTP proxy, so I want to have full control over exactly what the server and client send to each other. For example, LWP uses HTTP 1.0, I want to be able to send 1.1 as well. (For the above sample code, I took out the more involved parsing, including chunks and stuff.)