Contrary to the documentation, if a different filehandle has been
select()ed, getprint output will go there, not to STDOUT.

--- libwww-perl-5.79/lib/LWP/Simple.pm.orig     2004-04-09 08:36:52.000000000 -0700
+++ libwww-perl-5.79/lib/LWP/Simple.pm  2004-05-09 15:23:40.797227200 -0700
@@ -252,9 +252,10 @@
 =item getprint($url)
 
 Get and print a document identified by a URL. The document is printed
-to STDOUT as data is received from the network.  If the request fails,
-then the status code and message are printed on STDERR.  The return
-value is the HTTP response code.
+to the selected default filehandle for output (normally STDOUT) as
+data is received from the network.  If the request fails, then the
+status code and message are printed on STDERR.  The return value is
+the HTTP response code.
 
 =item getstore($url, $file)
 

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