use LWP::UserAgent;
$user_agent = new LWP::UserAgent;
$request = new HTTP::Request('GET',
'http://www.cpan.org/doc/FAQs/index.html');
$response = $user_agent->request($request);
open FILEHANDLE, ">file.txt";
print FILEHANDLE $response->{_content};
close FILEHANDLE;