just a simple example that seems to work!

perl/Curl_easy/examples/basicfirst.pl

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+# Test script for Perl extension Curl::easy.
+# Check out the file README for more info.
+
+use strict;
+use Curl::easy;
+
+my $url = "http://curl.haxx.se/dev/";
+
+print "Testing curl version ",&Curl::easy::version(),"\n";
+
+# Init the curl session
+my $curl= Curl::easy::init();
+if(!$curl) {
+    die "curl init failed!\n";
+}
+
+# Follow location headers
+ Curl::easy::setopt($curl, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
+
+# Add some additional headers to the http-request:
+my @myheaders;
+$myheaders[0] = "I-am-a-silly-programmer: yes indeed you are";
+$myheaders[1] = "User-Agent: Perl interface for libcURL";
+ Curl::easy::setopt($curl, Curl::easy::CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, \@myheaders);
+                                                                        
+my $errbuf;
+Curl::easy::setopt($curl, CURLOPT_ERRORBUFFER, "errbuf");
+
+Curl::easy::setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
+
+sub body_callback {
+    my ($chunk,$handle)=@_;
+    push @$handle, $chunk;
+    return length($chunk); # OK
+}
+ Curl::easy::setopt($curl, CURLOPT_WRITEFUNCTION, \&body_callback);
+
+my @body;
+ Curl::easy::setopt($curl, CURLOPT_FILE, \@body);
+
+if (Curl::easy::perform($curl) != 0) {
+    print "Failed :$errbuf\n";
+};
+
+# Cleanup
+ Curl::easy::cleanup($curl);
+
+print @body;