Have you stopped beating your wife?

Seriously though, you show up out of nowhere and start asking a series of very black-hat-y questions right out of the blocks. Given a history of people who've tried to abuse the largess of the monastery in the past in order to implement their nefarious (well, at least not well intentioned) schemes (e.g. the particularly persistent yet dense sequence documented in "freak" and recent threads), you have to understand that there's going to be some . . . shall we say, hesitation at the least to helping you.

(And as for your original question, take a read through LWP::UserAgent and it should take less than 5 minutes to sort out how it interfaces with the lower level socket modules.)