I replaced 'xxx.xx.xx.xx' with 'localhost' and your code worked fine on my system. What web server are you running against? My guess is it might be complaining about the space between 'HTTP/1.0' and the return.

$ perl atb.pl
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to localhost.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET /dir/index.html HTTP/1.0
 
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 22:41:52 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.19 (Unix)  (SuSE/Linux) mod_ssl/2.8.3 OpenSSL/0.9.6
+a mod_perl/1.25
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
 
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<TITLE>404 Not Found</TITLE>
</HEAD><BODY>
<H1>Not Found</H1>
The requested URL /dir/index.html was not found on this server.<P>
<HR>
<ADDRESS>Apache/1.3.19 Server at kona.tfp.net Port 80</ADDRESS>
</BODY></HTML>
Connection closed by foreign host.

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print map { my ($m)=1<<hex($_)&11?' ':'';
$m.=substr('AHJPacehklnorstu',hex($_),1) }
split //,'2fde0abe76c36c914586c';

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In reply to Re: Using Expect mod to telnet to port 80 (HTTP) by pfaut
in thread Using Expect mod to telnet to port 80 (HTTP) by ATB

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