LWP::Simple sits on top of LWP::UserAgent, so whatever the later can talk the former can handle as well (and the later can handle SSL/TLS fine so long as Crypt::SSLeay is installed). 

$ perl -MLWP::Simple -e 'getprint("https://www.microsoft.com")'|head
<!--TOOLBAR_EXEMPT-->                                                 
+          
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
+" />
<TITLE>Microsoft Corporation</TITLE>
<META http-equiv="PICS-Label" content="(PICS-1.1 &quot;http://www.rsac
+.org/ratingsv01.html&quot; l gen true r (n 0 s 0 v 0 l 0))" />
<META NAME="KEYWORDS" CONTENT="products; headlines; downloads; news; W
+eb site; what's new; solutions; services; software; contests; corpora
+te news;" />
<META NAME="DESCRIPTION" CONTENT="The entry page to Microsoft's Web si
+te. Find software, solutions, answers, support, and Microsoft news." 
+/>
<META NAME="MS.LOCALE" CONTENT="EN-US" />
<META NAME="CATEGORY" CONTENT="home page" />

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Update: Sorry, Crypt:: not Net::SSLeay; corrected above.

In reply to Re: Re: execute remote cgi from perl script, how? by Fletch
in thread execute remote cgi from perl script, how? by boat73

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