use LWP::Simple;

#get ZIP file and store it locally as 'download.zip'
getstore('http://localhost/testfile.zip', 'download.zip' );

#print HTML file to STDOUT
my $content = get('http://localhost/dbconnect/instructions.htm');
if (defined $content) {
   # it worked!
   print $content,"\n";
}
else {
   # there was a problem!
   warn 'Failed getting HTML file'
}