With no packages you are pretty stuck: as this so completely emasculates perl you should probably check whether you have at least the standard set installed.
If you havn't, you can always do things like
[tt] system "wget --output-document=$tmpfile $url";
open( PAGE, $tmpfile ) or die "$0 $!";[/tt] "As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as
easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered.
I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life
from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs."
--Maurice Wilk
