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Perl: Powerful TCP/IP functionality

OO interface to socket functions (IO::Socket)

Powerful OO libwww-perl library:

Fetch documents and mirror WWW and FTP sites

Connect through proxy servers

Use HTTP authentication (basic and digest)

Modules for many other protocols, including:

Telnet, NNTP (USENET news), SMTP and POP3 (email)

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