running this program: 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;
require LWP::UserAgent;
 
 my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
 
 my $response = $ua->get('http://search.cpan.org/');
 print Dumper $response;
 if ($response->is_success) {
     print $response->decoded_content;
 }

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generates this output 
 
$VAR1 = bless( {
     '_protocol' => 'HTTP/1.1',
     '_content' => '',
     '_rc' => '200',
     '_headers' => bless( {
          'connection' => 'close',
          'client-response-num' => 1,
          'last-modified' => 'Wed, 02 Nov 2011 17:44:19 GMT',
          'cache-control' => 'max-age=3599',
          'date' => 'Wed, 02 Nov 2011 17:44:19 GMT',
          'client-peer' => '199.15.176.161:80',
          'content-length' => '5752',
          'age' => '8',
          'client-aborted' => 'die',
          'client-date' => 'Wed, 02 Nov 2011 19:18:15 GMT',
          'x-died' => 'Can\'t load \'/opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.
+8.9/darwin-2level//auto/HTML/Parser/Parser.bundle\' for module HTML::
+Parser: dlopen(/opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.9/darwin-2level//au
+to/HTML/Parser/Parser.bundle, 1): Symbol not found: _PL_curpad
 Referenced from: /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.9/darwin-2level//
+auto/HTML/Parser/Parser.bundle
 Expected in: dynamic lookup
 at /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.9/darwin-2level//HTML/Parser.pm
+ line 17
Compilation failed in require at /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.9/
+darwin-2level//HTML/Entities.pm line 152.
Compilation failed in require at /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.9/
+darwin-2level//HTML/HeadParser.pm line 85.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.
+8.9/darwin-2level//HTML/HeadParser.pm line 85.
Compilation failed in require at /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.9/
+LWP/UserAgent.pm line 638.',
          'content-type' => 'text/html',
          'server' => 'Plack/Starman (Perl)',
          'expires' => 'Wed, 02 Nov 2011 18:44:19 GMT'
          }, 'HTTP::Headers' ),
     '_msg' => 'OK',
     'default_add_content' => 1,
     '_request' => bless( {
          '_content' => '',
          '_uri' => bless( do{\(my $o = 'http://search.cpan.org/')}, '
+URI::http' ),
          '_headers' => bless( {
                'user-agent' => 'libwww-perl/6.03'
                }, 'HTTP::Headers' ),
          '_method' => 'GET',
          '_uri_canonical' => $VAR1->{'_request'}{'_uri'}
          }, 'HTTP::Request' )
    }, 'HTTP::Response' );
Use of uninitialized value in print at ./t.pl line 13.

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environment:
perl: v5.8.9 built for darwin-2level
os: Darwin lski1167.mskcc.org 10.8.0 Darwin Kernel Version 10.8.0: Tue Jun 7 16:33:36 PDT 2011; root:xnu-1504.15.3~1/RELEASE_I386 i386
cpan says:
LWP::UserAgent is up to date (6.03).

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