Actually, you will save yourself a lot of trouble by using LWP and HTTP::Request, like so: 
use strict;
use LWP::UserAgent;
use HTTP::Request::Common;

print &getHTML('http://www.perlmonks.org');

sub getHTML($) {     # one $ means one scalar arg - for us humans

   my $url = shift;

   #create a new agent and name it
   my $ua = new LWP::UserAgent;
   $ua->agent("Shmozilla/0.1 " . $ua->agent);

   #create new request
   my $req  = new HTTP::Request GET => $url;

   #send the and try to get a response
   my $resp = $ua->request($req);

   return ($resp->is_success) ? $resp->content : "Error\n";
}

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In reply to (jeffa) RE: Re: Use of unitialized variable? by jeffa
in thread Use of unitialized variable? by Arsenal

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