Today I pushed a completely new socket implementation, which is much
closer to p5's IO::Socket::INET, and IMHO has a much saner interface.
For a client, write
my $c = IO::Socket::INET.new(:host('http://rakudo.org/'), :port(80));
# no separate .open call necessary.
For a server, write
my $s = IO::Socket::INET.new(
:localhost('127.0.0.1'),
:localport(1024),
:listen
);
# no separate calls to .bind or .listen necessary.
I hope this also addresses your problem. I've just pushed a patch for
LWP::Simple that adopts this new socket usage, and passes all tests.
Cheers,
Moritz
