All the other suggestions in this thread are right on, but I'll answer the question in a slightly different way..

use IO::Socket;

$www = IO::Socket::INET->new(
   PeerAddr => 'some_host_or_ip',
   PeerPort => '80_or_whatever_port_http_is_on',
   Proto    => 'tcp',
   Type     => SOCK_STREAM
) || die "Cant connect to some_host_or_ip\n$!\n";

print $www "GET / HTTP/1.0\n\n";

while (<$www>) {
   push(@response, $_);
}

close($www);
print "Got Back\n";
for (@response) {
    print;
}

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That should be syntactically correct. I didn't use strict, I also didn't take into account whether the HTTP server did or did not respond, so that while(<$www>) would block forever. Also I didn't actually remove the HTML tags returned. All these reasons and a few more are why people are pointing you to modules as opposed to simply answering the question you asked.

Happy Hacking

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In reply to Re: IO::Socket by l2kashe
in thread IO::Socket by Anonymous Monk

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