Actually, you can get some headers from LWP::Simple:

       head($url)
          Get document headers. Returns the following 5 values if succ
+essful: ($content_type, $document_length, $modi­fied_time, $expires, 
+$server)

          Returns an empty list if it fails.  In scalar context return
+s TRUE if successful.
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although you cant get any headers with the get method. merlyn is right though; you should use LWP::UserAgent instead.

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