Hi, Well, I've progressed some as you can see from this thread - but I've run into another issue, slightly different. How to deal with redirections. For example I've got the following website to monitor http://www.eserve.com.sa Which redirects to http://www1.elm.com.sa/Portal/Ar/Topics/Services/ However, for monitoring purposes I would like to monitor the first website as the rederiction can be changed. Now, following was my script: 
# !C:\Perl\bin

use strict;
use warnings;
use LWP::UserAgent;

my $url       = shift or die "URL expected\n";
my $useragent = LWP::UserAgent->new;

$useragent->proxy(['http', 'ftp','https'], 'http://192.168.5.39:8080/'
+);
$useragent -> timeout( 20 );

my $request   = HTTP::Request->new( HEAD => $url );
my $response  = $useragent->request($request);

print $response->status_line, "\n";
print $response->is_success, "\n";
print $useragent->proxy('http'),"\n";

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And following is the response to ach of the abiove websites: C:\SCRIPTING>urltestv5.pl http://www.eserve.com.sa 400 Bad Request C:\SCRIPTING>urltestv5.pl http://www1.elm.com.sa/Portal/Ar/Topics/Services/ 200 OK Is there any way around this? Or if I can capture the redirection from the script itself and then do HEAD to that? Any ideas? Appreciate your support and assistance

In reply to Re: LWP for URL monitoring - 500 connect timeout errors by Anonymous Monk
in thread LWP for URL monitoring - 500 connect timeout errors by oalvi

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