Perhaps your webserver just doesn't respond to "HEAD" requests. Shit happens.

In that case, I'd call plain "GET" but you could abort halfway. You then will have to use a callback. See getprint (in LWP::Simple) as an example, which I have reproduced here: 

sub getprint ($)
{
    my($url) = @_;
    my $request = HTTP::Request->new(GET => $url);
    local($\) = ""; # ensure standard $OUTPUT_RECORD_SEPARATOR
    my $callback = sub { print $_[0] };
    if ($^O eq "MacOS") {
        $callback = sub { $_[0] =~ s/\015?\012/\n/g; print $_[0] }
    }
    my $response = $ua->request($request, $callback);
    unless ($response->is_success) {
        print STDERR $response->status_line, " <URL:$url>\n";
    }
    $response->code;
}

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You'd have to reproduce this but of course with a different callback... With die and eval BLOCK, it might just work.

In reply to Re: LWP::Simple - so they say! by bart
in thread LWP::Simple - so they say! by MorayJ

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