Use the libwww-perl cookbook: perldoc lwpcook, or on the web at http://velocity.activestate.com/docs/ActivePerl/site/lib/lwpcook.html. It gives good, clear examples of everything from a simple get to https and proxies and whatnot and not.
-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
The activestate reference seems to be: http://www.activestate.com/ASPN/Reference/Products/ActivePerl-5.6/site/lib/lwpcook.html
Claude