Programming Perl, 4th Edition

connect

connect SOCKET, NAME

This function initiates a connection with another process that is waiting at an accept. The function returns true if it succeeded, false otherwise. NAME should be a packed network address of the proper type for the socket. For example, assuming SOCK is a previously created socket:

use Socket;

my ($remote, $port) = ("www.perl.com", 80);
my $destaddr = sockaddr_in($port, inet_aton($remote));
connect(SOCK, $destaddr)
    || die "Can't connect to $remote at port $port: $!";

To disconnect a socket, use either close or shutdown. See also the examples in the section Sockets in Chapter 15. See connect(2). For most socket operations, the higher-level interface provided by the standard IO::Socket module is preferred.