So we've redone our website. Now I want to make sure all the redirects are going to the correct place. What I want to do is request the old URL and see if the server gives a 301 code with the correct new url.

I found Is it possible to get the redirected URL?, but that didn't seem to have the answer. My script: 

use LWP;
my $url = "oldurl";

my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;

my $req = HTTP::Request->new(GET => $url);

my $res = $ua->request($req);

print $res->status_line;

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Now running the above code, it seems to realize the oldurl is redirected and pulls the new url and then gives me a 200 OK for the status line. I need to figure out how to get the 301 status from the url I gave it and not the new url it seems to pull from. Can someone help me?

Thanks in advance.

Brief Update: I know the url in question is being redirected b/c of this: 

[xorl@xorlsbox ~/tools]$telnet ourdomainname 80
Trying xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx...
Connected to ourdomainanme (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx).
Escape character is '^]'.
GET /olddir HTTP/1.1
host: ourdomainname

HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:18:45 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.52 (Red Hat)
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=c100bc24fda84639acb995ae36a4f8c4; path=/
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-
+check=0
Pragma: no-cache
Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=17c937ef60bcd4d587ba9f662384292e; path=/
Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=66db955db7d2e6987d235d8327b0abee; path=/
Location: /somecrazy/new/location/here/
Content-Length: 0
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8

Connection closed by foreign host.

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Update 2: Trying WWW::Mechanize now. Will post results. Update 3: WWW::Mechanize worked although the redirect_ok[0] solution did not. Here's the relevant code: 
  my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new();
  $mech->requests_redirectable([]);
  $mech->get($url);
  print $mech->response->code . " " . $mech->response->header("Locatio
+n");

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