Perl & Get web content Perl-Function [Expert]

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Hi all !

I have some questions to you, experts, that relate to the PERL
LANGUAGE

1. Is that possible to recognize the platform of a website ?
From example : If I take this website : http://www.latimes.com
How do I know if it is a PERL, a PHP or ASP ?
Is there a trick ?

2. The Get-Web-Content PERL function.
How to get the content using PERL script ?
In PHP : it is like this :

$homepage = file_get_contents(''http://andersen.times.com/adveruser/
adverpay.php?country=1270331545&time=1236928998');
echo $homepage;

What about in PERL ?

Thank you very much dear Madams and Sirs, for your answer.

Norman Cougloff