use HTTP::Lite;
use threads;
my $a = 0;
my $i = 0;

sub request
{
    print "trying to open up $address\n", scalar(localtime), "\n";
    $http = new HTTP::Lite;
    $req = $http->request("$address") 
        or die "Unable to get document: $!";
    $i++;
    my $content = $http->body();
    print "   Done with request for $address\n";
    my $search_variable = "test";
    if ( $content =~ m/$search_variable/) 
        {
            $a++ while ($content =~ m/$search_variable/g);
        }
     print "       Finished searching $address for $search_variable", scalar(localtime), "\n";
}

my @addresses = (
'http://www.website1.com',
'http://www.website2.com',
.
.
.
'http://www.website50.com'
);



                 #my $URLResult = $Result->Url;
my @threads;
foreach $address(@addresses) {
    my $thread = threads->create(\&request);
    push(@threads, $thread);
}

}
foreach (@threads)
{
$_->join();
}