(Perl) HTTP GET - Download HTML or any Text Content to a String

The QuickGetStr method is the simplest way to retrieve a text resource from a web server using an HTTP GET request. The text resource can be HTML, XML, text, or anything other type of file composed of readable text.

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use chilkat();

$http = new chilkat::CkHttp();

#  Any string unlocks the component for the 1st 30-days.
$success = $http->UnlockComponent("Anything for 30-day trial");
if ($success != 1) {
    print $http->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

#  Send the HTTP GET and return the content in a string.

$html = $http->quickGetStr("http://www.wikipedia.org/");

print $html . "\r\n";