Simple example to slurp in Google's home page:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use LWP::Simple;
my $page;
unless (defined ($page = get 'http://www.google.com')) {
  die "Can't retrieve page";
}
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Although I think it's worth learning the more complicated LWP::UserAgent module if you're doing something with more depth...

cLive ;-)