update: because of isotope's response to this posting, I've discovered that it is not HTTP/1.1 that is the solution, but providing the Host: header that allows the server to respond with a redirect. Without LWP, you're safer and have less work if you stick to HTTP/1.0 combinded with the Host: header

The page is not available, for whatever reason (probably because of authentication). Request http://login.gatorlink.ufl.edu/authenticate.cgi in a browser and notice that you are redirected to http://login.gatorlink.ufl.edu/retry.cgi? .

You're making an HTTP request using HTTP/1.0. So the server responds with the "404 Not Found" page. Change your request to HTTP/1.1 and you will receive a redirect as the response: 

telnet login.gatorlink.ufl.edu 80
Trying 128.227.128.87...
Connected to dir2fe1.server.ufl.edu.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET /authenticate.cgi HTTP/1.1
Host: login.gatorlink.ufl.edu

HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 23:30:14 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.6 (Unix) mod_perl/1.19 mod_ssl/2.2.8 OpenSSL/0.9.2b
URI: retry.cgi?
Set-Cookie: UF_GatorLinkState=none; path=/; domain=.ufl.edu;
Location: retry.cgi?
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html

be
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<TITLE>302 Found</TITLE>
</HEAD><BODY>
<H1>Found</H1>
The document has moved <A HREF="retry.cgi?">here</A>.<P>
</BODY></HTML>

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