If you cannot get LWP here is a way that will work.
NOTE This code is only a very basic way to get the html from a web page, I do not recomend using it if at all posible, but it will work fine if all you want to do is grab the html and save it to a file. 
use IO::Socket;

my $host = "www.perlmonks.com";
my $port = 80;
my $path = "/"; # The path is everything after the host name (includin
+g the first /)


# You need the two \n in the get request
my $get =<<EOF;
GET $path HTTP/1.0

EOF

# Open our socket
my $http_request = IO::Socket::INET->new(
    Proto    => "tcp",
    PeerAddr => $host,
    PeerPort => $port,
) or die $!;

# Write our request
print $http_request $get;

# Grab the output
my @html = <$http_request>;

# Do something with the output
print @html;

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In reply to Re: getting HTML source by c-era
in thread getting HTML source by ColonelPanic

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