use LWP::UserAgent; open WFH, ">test.html" or die($!); my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new; $ua->agent("Mozilla/5.0"); $ua->env_proxy; $ua->proxy('http', 'http://www.tau.ac.il/tau.pac'); $ua->timeout(10); my $response = $ua->get('http://search.cpan.org/'); if ($response->is_success) { print WFH $response->content; } else { die $response->status_line; }