Attention Perl geeks: libwww-perl, the incredibly useful group of modules for doing Web stuff in Perl, comes with three handy scripts — GET, HEAD, and POST. To grab the source for a Web page on the Internet, you can just use:

GET http://rc3.org/

To find out more about any of these wonderful scripts (you have to install libwww-perl to use them), just type in the script name at a shell prompt with no arguments.