I am trying to pull URLs from a MySQL database and check them to make sure they are still valid. Here's what I am currently using 
.....
    my($query) = "SELECT weburl, webdate FROM table WHERE approval = '
+1' LIMIT 10";
    my($sth) = $dbh->prepare($query);
    $sth->execute || die("Could not execute!");
    while(@row = $sth->fetchrow_array)  {
    $whereto = "$row[0]";
    &letsgo;
    }
    exit;

    sub letsgo {    
        $ua->agent("Mozilla/8.0");
        $req = new HTTP::Request 'GET' => '$whereto';
        $res = $ua->request($req);


  if ($res->is_success) {
     print "$whereto WORKS\n";
  } else {
         print "$whereto doesnt work\n";
  }
  }

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That shows every URL as being dead even if it's not. If I change 
$req = new HTTP::Request 'GET' => '$whereto';

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to something like 
$req = new HTTP::Request 'GET' => 'http://www.google.com';

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It works fine. What am I missing when getting URLs from the database?

In reply to Checking URLs with LWP::UserAgent by MintyFresh

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