I think this could be your problem:

$fetchURL=$cgiobject->param("url");
unless ($fetchURL) 
 {$fetchURL="www.yahoo.com"}
$webPage=get($fetchURL);
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You need to correctly specify the URL as http://...

I suggest breaking the thing down in to bits.
First build a perl program that can retrieve a URL and display the content.
Then build a CGI script that builds the HTML form etc. and just displays the source of any web page retrieved (hint $content =~ s/</&lt;/g; print pre($content) is a quick and dirty way of putting what you have retrieved in a form that you can see it on a browser).
Finally build the processing code.

Dingus

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