I think this is the problem (in server response to your request):

HTTP/1.x 200 OK
Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2008 09:00:12 GMT
Server: Apache
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.5
Cache-Control: private, s-maxage=0, max-age=0, must-revalidate
Content-Language: en
Vary: Accept-Encoding,Cookie
X-Vary-Options: Accept-Encoding;list-contains=gzip,Cookie;string-contains=enwikiToken;string-contains=enwikiLoggedOut;string-contains=enwiki_session;string-contains=centralauth_Token;string-contains=centralauth_Session;string-contains=centralauth_LoggedOut
Last-Modified: Sat, 05 Jul 2008 05:40:32 GMT
Content-Encoding: gzip
Content-Length: 19469
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Age: 53724
X-Cache: HIT from sq30.wikimedia.org, MISS from sq21.wikimedia.org, MISS from mail.irkutsk.2gis.ru
X-Cache-Lookup: HIT from sq30.wikimedia.org:3128, MISS from sq21.wikimedia.org:80, MISS from mail.irkutsk.2gis.ru:3128
Via: 1.0 sq30.wikimedia.org:3128 (squid/2.6.STABLE18), 1.0 sq21.wikimedia.org:80 (squid/2.6.STABLE18)
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive

As you can see it uses gziped response so you must have something which unzip it for you.

In reply to Re: LWP::Simple::get($url) does not work for some urls by Gangabass
in thread LWP::Simple::get($url) does not work for some urls by vit

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