Thanks for your input. Certainly a good idea to have a look at working examples in other languages. I'll also take a look at LWP, and see if I can accomplish the same task with it.

Thanks for your reply zentara :)

Update:
After much wrestling with WWW::Curl::new and it's , in my opinion, difficult and unclear documentation, I have finally taken zentra's sterling advice and used LWP instead. Specifically LWP::UserAgent. What a big difference! Much easier to use, the documentation is clear, complete and gives an overview of everything that's happening.

Thanks again zentra :)