Hmm. Did you try the same using LWP::UserAgent? I think that may fix the problem.

Is there a specific reason you need to use Simple?

Update: After a quick test,

use LWP::UserAgent;


my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new();
my $req = new HTTP::Request GET => 'http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel
+';
my $res = $ua->request($req);
my $content = $res->content;


#----------------------
print "$content\n";
#----------------------
[download]

Seems to work fine.