~>perldoc LWP::UserAgent | ack -i \\bhead\\b requests_redirectable ['GET', 'HEAD'] headers from the section of HTML documents. The default is this is "['GET', 'HEAD']", as per RFC 2616. To change to include $ua->head( $url ) $ua->head( $url , $field_name => $value, ... ) This method will dispatch a "HEAD" request on the given $url. #### perl -MWWW::Mechanize -le 'print WWW::Mechanize->new->head("http://perlmonks.org")->message' OK