use Getopt::Long;
our URL = "http://www.bork.embl-heidelberg.de/g2d/"
    .     "list_hits_disease.pl?U57042:Inflammatory_bowel_disease_7";

GetOptions( 'url=s', \$URL ) || die ( "Error reading command line args" );
my $browser = LWP::UserAgent->new();
my $resp = $browser->get( $URL );