Gee, I wonder why it works for me (works extremely well)
use URI;
use URI::Find;
use strict;
use warnings;

my $text = <<'__TEXT__';

Hi there, please read http://perlmonks.org/?node=How+to+RTFM.
That's http://perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=78752.

Students can activate their UMSIS userids on-line by filling out
and submitting the form at https://umsis.miami.edu/sign-up.
...which can be obtained via the web at http://www.miami.edu/it-forms/
+.
Holy snot http://batman.com, would you look at this!?!?!
__TEXT__



find_uris($text, sub {
    my ($find_uri, $orig_uri) = @_;
    my $uri = URI->new( $orig_uri );
    $uri = $uri->canonical->as_string;
    return '<a href="' . $uri . '">' . $uri . '</a>';
});

print $text;
__END__
Hi there, please read <a href="http://perlmonks.org/?node=How+to+RTFM"
+>http://perlmonks.org/?node=How+to+RTFM</a>.
That's <a href="http://perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=78752">http://pe
+rlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=78752</a>.

Students can activate their UMSIS userids on-line by filling out
and submitting the form at <a href="https://umsis.miami.edu/sign-up">h
+ttps://umsis.miami.edu/sign-up</a>.
...which can be obtained via the web at <a href="http://www.miami.edu/
+it-forms/">http://www.miami.edu/it-forms/</a>.
Holy snot <a href="http://batman.com/">http://batman.com/</a>, would y
+ou look at this!?!?!

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Hi there, please read http://perlmonks.org/?node=How+to+RTFM. That's http://perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=78752. Students can activate their UMSIS userids on-line by filling out and submitting the form at https://umsis.miami.edu/sign-up. ...which can be obtained via the web at http://www.miami.edu/it-forms/. Holy snot http://batman.com/, would you look at this!?!?!
Must be lucky I guess :-)

update: for emails, try Email::Find (didn't see that coming)

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