Update2: 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;

use LWP::Simple;

my $url ='http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/errors/errors.html';
my $content = get $url;
print $content;

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Works verbatim.
Update: Woops.. LWP simple, not just LWP :) Answered the wrong question.

I've never seen "get $url" construct before.. but I'm not a big LWP user. :) Stolen from the LWP perldoc, minus the url... (perldoc is your friend) 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;

use LWP::UserAgent;
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
$ua->agent("MyApp/0.1 ");

# Create a request
my $req = HTTP::Request->new(GET => 'http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/e
+rrors/errors.html');

# Pass request to the user agent and get a response back
my $res = $ua->request($req);

# Check the outcome of the response
if ($res->is_success) {
 print $res->content;
}
else {
 print $res->status_line, "\n";
}

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This script works for me.

Play that funky music white boy..

In reply to Re: Get to non-port 80 by exussum0
in thread Get to non-port 80 by ecuguru

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