Getting data from external URL

[Vijay]

Hello,

I want to get data from an external url in my perl program (either thru
Embperl Execute or directly from perl). What I need is like this.

There is a URL which gives some information in text format. I want to get
that into a variable or file using perl and using my own html templates, I
want to show that data.

If anyone has done something like this, please let me know.

Thanks

Vijay