If all you're after is retrieving pages from the web, there are many other alternatives :

LWP::Simple

As long as you need only one page, it's hard to beat LWP::Simple :

use strict;
use LWP::Simple;

my $url = 'http://www.google.com';

mirror($url,'f:/test.html');
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WWW::Mechanize

If you need something that feels more like a browser, it's hard to surpass WWW::Mechanize, as it has "open" and "click" methods that take link names or link numbers as arguments :

use strict;
use WWW::Mechanize;
my $url = 'http://www.google.com';

my $agent = WWW::Mechanize->new();
$agent->get($url);
$agent->open('Images');

print $agent->content();
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If your path through the pages is more complex, my module WWW::Mechanize::Shell can help you with the development of your WWW::Mechanize script.

perl -MHTTP::Daemon -MHTTP::Response -MLWP::Simple -e ' ;    # The  
$d = new HTTP::Daemon and fork and getprint $d->url and exit;#spider
($c = $d->accept())->get_request(); $c->send_response( new   #in the
HTTP::Response(200,$_,$_,qq(Just another Perl hacker\n))); ' #  web
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