Hi Guys, hopefully someone out there can give me a hand with this. I have created a small perl script that checks the port and some content for a dynamic web server. If either is not available, it generates an alert for our support staff. Here's my problem, the dynamic server is not sending me the information quickly enough, and regardless of it's status the script assumes it's not available. see snippet. 
sub GetWebLogic {
    $url = "http://" . $server . ":" . $port . "/HttpController?GetPag
+e=UserLogonForm";
    if ($Testing eq "Yes" ) { print "Checking Dynamic Page\n"; }
    $ua = new LWP::UserAgent;
    $request = HTTP::Request->new(GET => $url);
    $response = $ua->request($request);
    if ($response->is_success) { $dynamic = $response->content; }

    @dynamic = split(/\n/,$dynamic);
    
    foreach $line (@dynamic) {
        ## Check the output of the web page for the HTML <HEAD> tag
        if ($line =~ /<HEAD>/i) { 
            if ($Testing eq "Yes") { print "Found the Dynamic HTML <HE
+AD> tag\n"; }
            $DynamicPageCheckOK = "Yes";
        }
    if ($DynamicPageCheckOK eq "Yes") { 
            ## Page returned do noting
        } else {
            ## Page didn't return generate an error
            &GenerateServerError;
        }
    } 

}

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The script returns all the page information, but I look for the HEAD tag, the script continues on its way before receiving all the page, if I change it the look for the HTML tag it works fine. So after this long winded description, my question would be, how do I have my script wait until all the input is received back. TIA liquidc00l

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