Indeed, :content_cb seems the way to go...
After having a look at the docs, I understand it like this:
:content:cb takes the $response->content out of the loop and pushes everything received to the defined sub. Ok so far. But does this mean the response object becomes incomplete?

I just want to peek at the content and in case of non-text/* data quit the request. But as far as I understand it, content won't end up in $response->content when I use :content_cb - right?

BTW: any hints what a good regex to find 'binary values' would be?

Thanks to all!

In reply to Re^4: LWP: Alternative to using HEAD 1st and then GET? (content sensing?) by isync
in thread LWP: Alternative to using HEAD 1st and then GET? (content sensing?) by isync

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