I would like to use HTTP::Request::Common and LWP::UserAgent for that kind of stunt and use a POST to submit the data to the server.

Try out the following:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

# Uses
use strict;
use HTTP::Request::Common qw(POST);
use LWP::UserAgent;

# URL
my $url = 'http://www.live365.com/cgi-bin/directory.cgi';

# User Agent Object
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
$ua->proxy(['http', 'ftp'], 'http://10.2.7.11:8080');

#The username that you are looking up
print "Please input username: ";
my $username = <STDIN>;
chomp($username);


# Request
my $req = POST $url, 
    [ genre=>'search', searchdesc=> $username, searchfields=>'H'];

my $page=$ua->request($req)->as_string;

#The rest of your code goes here
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/brother t0mas