Im trying to write a script that grabs the last x number of lines of a file on a remote web site and this is what i have so far. These are punkbuster screenshots from a websserver for the americas army game and the html page is quite large. As my code stands now I have to download the entire code from the site to display the last 20 lines. Is there a way I can just download the last 20 lines from the site without having to download the whole page using perl to make for faster download time? 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w 
use IO::Socket; 
$sock = new IO::Socket::INET (PeerAddr => "xx.xx.xx.xx", 
PeerPort => "http(80)"); 

die "Couldnt create socket: $@" unless $sock; 

$sock->autoflush(1); 

$sock->print("GET /xx.xx.xx.xx/pbsvss.htm HTTP/1.1\n Host:xx.xx.xx.xx:
+80\n\n"); 
@document = $sock->getlines(); 
@lastlines = @document[-20 .. -1]; 
print "last lines: \n\n"; 
print @lastlines;

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