It's not clear why you added the tilde and the angle brackets to the values assigned to @CHECK, but the script runs better if you change 
   @CHECK =   # list of initial starting points
   qw(~http://www.sun.com/ <http://www.sun.com/>);

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to: 
   @CHECK =   # list of initial starting points
   qw(http://www.sun.com/);

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Also, you made a mistake in typing the line near the bottom that you have as:    $request = HTTP::Request ($method,$thisurl); It should read:    $request = new HTTP::Request ($method,$thisurl); You will also need to adjust the values in sub PARSE to properly screen for the range of URLs you are interested in. The script you have at present checks for pages at www.sun.com that satisfy a regex in sub PARSE that is screening for pages in Merlyn's site. Since there are no pages that satisfy both conditions, the script finishes up rather quickly.

For those interested in pursing this further, here is the listing and the column that discusses it.

Update: Hi, Merlyn!
 

In reply to Re: Merlyns Web Link checker by dvergin
in thread Merlyns Web Link checker by Anonymous Monk

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