Arrrgh. What a blunder....yet the long form for IO::Socket::INET->new() still won't work!

Edit: Ok, I got the long form to work with PeerPort => 80, but it doesn't work for me with PeerPort => 'http(80)'.

It'd be kinda nice if the module reported failure for the connect attempt though.

Yes. At first I assumed the connection had failed, but then I realized my die() didn't execute.

Edit2: lol. The combined form for PeerPort works for me if I add a space between 'http' and the port number:

And to make sure it was really working, i.e. looking up the port number for the specified service, 'http', and if not found then using the port number in parentheses, I tried this:

PeerPort => 'abcxyz (80)',
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and I was able to successfully make a connection and get a response.