I would like to use HTTP::Request::Common and LWP::UserAgent for that kind of stunt
and use a POST to submit the data to the server.
Try out the following:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
# Uses
use strict;
use HTTP::Request::Common qw(POST);
use LWP::UserAgent;
# URL
my $url = 'http://www.live365.com/cgi-bin/directory.cgi';
# User Agent Object
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
$ua->proxy(['http', 'ftp'], 'http://10.2.7.11:8080');
#The username that you are looking up
print "Please input username: ";
my $username = <STDIN>;
chomp($username);
# Request
my $req = POST $url,
[ genre=>'search', searchdesc=> $username, searchfields=>'H'];
my $page=$ua->request($req)->as_string;
#The rest of your code goes here
/brother t0mas