I wrote a routine to verify links that are submitted to my webpage before posting them and I was wondering if there was a way to limit the amount of data that it retrieves? For example, if someone links directly to a 17MB avi, it tries to pull the whole avi in before it can verify it.

TIA, Jack. 

sub check_url{
        my $return;
        my $url=shift;
        chomp($url);
           #$url=~ s/^http:\/\///i;
           #$url="http://$url";

        my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
           $ua->agent("Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5
+.0)");
        # Create a request
        my $req = HTTP::Request->new(GET => $url);
        # Pass request to the user agent and get a response back
        my $res = $ua->request($req);
        # Check the outcome of the response
        unless ($res->is_success) {
                $return="404";
        }
        return $return;
}

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