You can use LWP to do it. There is also a package called Mechanize on CPAN you can use. It is a layer over LWP. You may want to get this book http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perllwp/. Shop around, it's cheaper on Amazon.

There's even a link with examples. http://examples.oreilly.com/perllwp/

This will grab the html from the google homepage.

use strict;
use warnings;
use LWP;
my $browser;
$browser = LWP::UserAgent->new() unless $browser;
my $resp = $browser->get('http://www.google.com');
print "$resp->content\n";
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