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in thread Access webpage

The original URL is mangled: 
use IO::All;
my $html < io->http("http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu:80/goldenpath/hg19
+/database");

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The :80 needs to be after the domain name, but is redundant. It is only needed if it is not port 80.

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