Thanks! LWP::UserAgent works a treat! you are a star!

#!D:/Perl/bin/perl.exe

 require LWP::UserAgent;

 my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new(env_proxy => 1,
                              keep_alive => 1,
                              timeout => 30,
                             );



$request = HTTP::Request->new('GET', 'http://foo.co/cgi/remote.cgi');

$response = $ua->request($request);
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