Hi,
You could check out LWP::UserAgent and LWP::Simple.
If you want to extend into monitoring and health checks look at WWW::Mechanize. 
use WWW::Mechanize;
    my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new();
    $mech->get( $url );

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Just get the page and check for a 200 status (the documentation on these modules is self explanatory)
If you dont want to go with a perl module and want a simple command line solution check WGET.
 wget -q --proxy=off --cache=off $URL -O /tmp/urlget.html
HTH
Regards,
Rajdeep.
Abigail is right,content checking for a string you are expecting is a good idea

In reply to Re: How to check if a website is up? by chimni
in thread How to check if a website is up? by anev

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