Greetings, I have been asked to write a script that will calculate the time a webpage takes to load...I interpreted this requirement as the time between a http request and response for the given page. The script I've come up with is posted below. Before I start using it I wanted to subject it to scrutiny here hoping to avoid embarassment due to inaccuracy. Any direction or critism would be greatly appreciated... Thanks in advance, Jason 
#/usr/bin/perl -w
use LWP::UserAgent;
use Crypt::SSLeay;
use Time::HiRes qw(gettimeofday);
use strict;
print "Enter URL to Time GET request for...  ";
my $host=<STDIN>;
chomp $host;
my $before=gettimeofday;
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new(); 
my $request = HTTP::Request->new('GET', "$host");
my $response = $ua->request($request);
my $elapsed=gettimeofday-$before;
print "ERROR: Bad URL\n" if($response->is_error);
my @content=split/\n/,$response->content;
print "Request took $elapsed seconds.\n";
my @title=grep /(?:title|TITLE)/, @content;
print "TITLE LINE: @title \n" unless($response->is_error);

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