Here is a simple script that fetches a web page with LWP::Simple: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use LWP::Simple;

my $content = get('http://www.perl.com');

#do something with the $content

print $content;

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From your post, I see that you are retrieving information from web pages. You didn't say what sort of information, but here are some of the more popular modules that people use to parse web page elements:

Short Description HTML::* CPAN Module
Extract Table Information HTML::TableExtract
Fetch all URL links on the page HTML::LinkExtor
Parse and create form attributes HTML::Form
Generate summary of content HTML::Summary
Everything else HTML::Parser

In reply to Re: Retrieving URLs by dkubb
in thread Retrieving URLs by Anonymous Monk

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