I want to grab a bit of information from IMDB.

I can do this with LWP::UA by with something like this: 

my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
my $response =
$ua->get('http://imdb.com/find?nm=on;mx=20;q=eliza%20dushku');

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and if I do that with a name that exactly matches something in IMDB's database, it will redirect the browser to another URL, in this case http://imdb.com/name/nm0244630/

Now I can parse the information in that page to get what I want, but actually, all I need is this person's IMDB URL, so if I could figure out whether their server returned a Location: header which send the browser to this URL, that would save unneccessary processing.

If this doesn't happen of course, (and the URL remains "http://imdb.com/find?nm=on;mx=20;q=liza%20dushku" because you got her name wrong) I need to do some further processing. But what I really want is something like this pseudocode: 

my $response =
$ua->get('http://imdb.com/find?nm=on;mx=20;q=eliza%20dushku');

if($response included a relocation to a URL){
store that URL
} else {
do the more complicated stuff
}

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Any ideas?

($_='kkvvttuubbooppuuiiffssqqffssmmiibbddllffss')
=~y~b-v~a-z~s; print

In reply to How to tell if a URL returned a Location: header? by Cody Pendant

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