Thanks, tangent, that's got it. With a little help from HTML::Tree, this suffices:

  use strict;
  use warnings;
  use feature 'say';
  use LWP::UserAgent;
  use HTML::Tree;

  my $url = 'https://berniesanders.com/issues/racial-justice/';
  my $ua  = LWP::UserAgent->new();
  $ua->agent(
    'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i586; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Fire
+fox/31.0'
  );
  my $response = $ua->get($url);
  my $content  = $response->content;
  if ( $content =~ m/enemy/i ) {
    say "enemy found";
  }
  else {
    my $tree = HTML::Tree->new();
    $tree->parse($content);
    print $tree->as_text;
  }

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I've seen code like this before, and I thought I actually needed to have the browser in question, but apparently not. Am I correct to think that that string need to have nothing to do with the actual machine it runs on? Does the string you used make a good overall choice for such queries?

I'd like to consider a related question, given that we're barely warmed up here. I've always wanted the funtionality of having mechanized events happen and then having an actual browser opened. I don't know if one browser works better than another for this, but I use Chrome for most of my day-in and day-out surfing, viewing or whatever. Clearly, I would have to define a path to the executable, which I believe is here:

 Directory of C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application

08/22/2015  03:42 AM    <DIR>          .
08/22/2015  03:42 AM    <DIR>          ..
08/14/2015  12:43 PM    <DIR>          44.0.2403.155
08/22/2015  03:42 AM    <DIR>          44.0.2403.157
08/17/2015  10:23 PM           813,896 chrome.exe
06/03/2013  04:26 PM            18,546 master_preferences
06/19/2014  02:37 AM    <DIR>          Plugins
08/22/2015  03:42 AM               399 VisualElementsManifest.xml

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How might I open the url from the original post in this browser?

In reply to Re^2: getting content of an https website by Aldebaran
in thread getting content of an https website by Aldebaran

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