Although this isn't a Perl solution to this problem (but, NB that TIMTOWTDI), you could just make a system call to lynx -dump http://www.somewhere.com (which would spit out the digested page, HTML interpreted) or lynx -source http://www.somewhere.com (which would give you the page's source, just ike $page = get "http://www.somewhere.com".)

Remember, variety is the spice of life.

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