And for the record, this is just a script to check if the links I have in a database are correct, ie, I'm checking for a return status code of 200, and if not, grab the status code so I can delete them from the database.

Not only 200 indicates a succesful state. Use $res->is_success instead ($res being your HTTP::Response object)

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