in reply to Get to non-port 80

LWP::Simple uses standard URIs for its connections, so you specify the port as you would specify it in any other HTTP URI :

  my $url = 'http://www.site.com:8080';
  getprint $url;

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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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