Depends on the nature of your application, you may want to consider mod_perl. LWP::UserAgent requires a new thread/process for each session in a multi-user environment. If your site is "hot", and may get many hits within a minute, LWP::UserAgent is absolutely not a choice.

Anyway, the following piece of code receives the response, and parse the header into a hash. 
use IO::Socket::INET;
use Data::Dumper;
use strict;

my $s = new IO::Socket::INET(Proto => "tcp",
                             PeerAddr => "www.yahoo.com",
                             PeerPort => 80)
            || die "failed to new socket\n";
print $s "GET http://www.yahoo.com HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: www.yahoo.com\r\n
+\r\n";
my $response;
while (<$s>) {
    chomp;
    if (m/^\s*$/) {last};
    m/(.*?)[:| ]\s*(.*?)[\r|\n]/;
    $response->{$1} = $2;
}
close($s);
print Dumper($response);

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in thread create a HTTP::Response object from a raw buffer? by edan

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