Hi this is not the best way to do this. Some significant problems with your script are that you load the contern of the entire link and then parse this when you only want the header which will contain the HTTP response code in the status line. You might find this a bit better, it is much faster.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use HTML::TokeParser;
use LWP::UserAgent;

my $ua      = LWP::UserAgent->new;
my $proxy   = 'http://proxy.hbt.tassie.net.au:8080';
my $netloc  = '';
my $realm   = '';
my $uname   = '';
my $pass    = '';
$ua->credentials($netloc, $realm, $uname, $pass);
$ua->proxy( 'http', $proxy );

my $url = 'http://www.perlmonks.com/';
$url .= '/' if $url =~ m|http://[^/]+$|i;  # add trailing / if forgott
+en
my ($root) = $url =~ m|(http://.*/)|i;
my $content = get( $url );

print "Checking links....\n";
my $parse = HTML::TokeParser->new( \$content );
while (my $token = $parse->get_tag('a')) {
   my $link = $token->[1]{href} || next;
   my $text=$parse->get_trimmed_text('/a');
   if ($link =~ m|^\s*mailto|i) {
      next;
   }
   elsif ($link=~ m|^\s*http://|i){
      print &test( $link, $text );
   } 
   else {
      $link =~ s|^\s*/||;
      print &test( $root.$link, $text );
   }
}

sub get {
    my $url = shift;
    print "Getting $url....";
    my $request = HTTP::Request->new( 'GET', $url );
    my $content = $ua->request( $request ); 
    print "$$content{_msg} $$content{_rc}\n";
  return $$content{_content};
}

sub test {
    my ( $url, $text ) = @_;
    my $request = HTTP::Request->new( 'HEAD', $url );
    my $content = $ua->request( $request );
  return  "$$content{_msg} $$content{_rc} ($text) $url\n";
}

__END__
Getting http://www.perlmonks.com/....OK 200
Checking links....
OK 200 (Frank) http://www.perlmonks.com/index.pl?node_id=966&lastnode_
+id=131
OK 200 (perlmonks) http://www.perlmonks.com/index.pl
OK 200 (login) http://www.perlmonks.com/index.pl?node=login&lastnode_i
+d=131
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cheers

tachyon

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