Your question is unclear. What is it that you want to do better? Do you want to know a better way if a web page doesn't exist or a server is down? (Catch any error that the web server returns, if any- using their error number and string information or Net::Ping a potentially dead server.)Or do you want to be more instructive to the user? (Try warn or any of the Carp utilities.) Would you like to improve speed efficiency? Also, no biggie, but you could try the more Perlish for loop: for(1..3){stuff;}

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