I appreciate all the help from everyone!

The problem was pretty much exactly what sutch said. I've updated the request to use HTTP/1.1 and the Host: field. I might take the advice and use the User-Agent: field as well when I read more about it.

What I've got now (below) works. Though I realize this is a pretty primative hack, I just don't have access to LWP (at the moment).

Again, thanks for all the help!

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use IO::Socket;
unless (@ARGV) { die "usage: $0 URL\n" }
$EOL = "\015\012";
$BLANK = $EOL x 2;
$sep = (@ARGV > 1) ? "-------------------\n" : "";
foreach $url ( @ARGV ) {
    unless($url =~ m{^http://(.*?)/(.*)$}) { print "$0: invalid url: $
+url\n"; next }
    $host = $1;
    $rest = $2;
    $remote = IO::Socket::INET->new( Proto     => "tcp",
                                     PeerAddr  => $host,
                                     PeerPort  => "http(80)",
                                    );
    unless ($remote) { die "Cannot connect to http daemon on $host\n" 
+}
    $remote->autoflush(1);
    print $remote "GET /$rest HTTP/1.1". $EOL . "Host: $host" . $BLANK
+;
    while ( <$remote> ) { print }
    print "\n$sep";
    close $remote;
}
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