POE::Component::Client::HTTP looks interesting, too, although when I had a quick look at it the documentation wasn't too great so I never got any code working. POE looks like an interesting tool for dealing with a variety of parallel tasks in Perl, though.

Ntav's code might benefit from using an array of URLs instead of a series of scalars. For example:

use LWP::Simple;
my @page = qw(http://www.first.com http://www.last.com);
foreach (@page) {
    get($_);
}
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