Might be useful if you at least summarised the point of your code in a few words beyond your non-descript title. At the very, very least, a usage message and a CPAN-style one-liner about its purpose would be much better than figuratively saying “just read the sourcecode, won’t ya?”

Does this do anything that wget doesn’t? (Specifically with the --tries and --timeout switches.)

Makeshifts last the longest.