Here's an LWP snippet that does what I think you are trying to do:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use CGI;
use HTTP::Request::Common qw(GET POST);
use LWP::UserAgent;

my $cgi = CGI->new;
my $ua  = LWP::UserAgent->new;

my $response = $ua->request(
  $cgi->request_method eq 'POST'
    ? POST $cgi->param('url'), [ $cgi->Vars ]
    : GET  $cgi->param('url') . '?' . $cgi->query_string,
);

print $cgi->header, $response->is_success
  ? $response->content
  : $response->error_as_HTML;
[download]

There are a few things about this code:

• It uses CGI.pm, which takes care of all the parameter parsing issues for you. It's generally better, and simpler than using home grown routines.
• $cgi->Vars returns a hash. If you have parameters that are passed in that could have multiple values, then this could cause you problems. Although, if your parameter names are unique, this should be no problem.
• You need to pass in a parameter called 'url', which needs to be in the format:

  http://sitename.com/path/to/file.html
  [download]

• Will work with only POST and GET requests

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