in reply to Grabbing a hundred pages

Well don't load em all at once... unless you have a hardware sponsor or your boss doesn't mind you coding bad code :)
LWP::Simple is your friend... HTML::Parser probably too.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use LWP::Simple; for my $i (1..100) { my $page = get("http://www.some.url.com/$i.html"); foo($page); }

Greetz
Beatnik
... Quidquid perl dictum sit, altum viditur.