http get request help

heywait86 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi, I don't know if this is even possible, but I'm trying to do a html get request with perl. I've tried using several modules, but have had no success, my current code looks like this, I'm sure I'm doing it all wrong but this is what I have based on googling.

#!/usr/bin/perl
    use Net::Telnet ();
      
        $server = "xxxx.xxxxxxx.xxx";
    $cmd = "GET / HTTP/1.1\n\n";

    $t = new Net::Telnet ("Timeout" => 10, "Port" => 81
              "Prompt" => '');
    $t->open($server);
   
   @lines = $t->cmd($cmd);
   print @lines;
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Re: http get request help by merlyn (Sage) on Apr 29, 2010 at 02:48 UTC
`use LWP::Simple; my $result = get "http://www.perlmonks.org";` [download] -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: http get request help by pemungkah (Priest) on Apr 29, 2010 at 02:51 UTC
Yep, you're doing it all wrong. You really, really want to be using LWP or WWW::Mechanize. Either of those should Just Work for you.	[reply]