I'm not really sure this is what you mean, but you can use LWP for fetching files that can be reached with an URL or Net::SSH if you need to get it with SSH.

A short example with LWP::Simple :

use LWP::Simple;
my $document = get("http://some.site/filename.extention");
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Read the docs for LWP for much more info :-)

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