I have a simple program to check the validity of links before submitting them to search engines (code below.)

This code declares that "incomplete" URLS, like  http://www.mysite.com/mydir are no good -- when, in fact, they work just fine in a browser (and when submited to search engines). The "problem" with these URLs is that the full path all the way down to file isn't explicitly specified, I think.

My question is how do I get LWP useragent to act like a browser and find the default page in a directory?

thanks

nop 

package MyUA;
use base qw(LWP::UserAgent);
use strict;

use CGI qw/:standard/;


sub redirect_ok {1};

sub new {
    my $class = shift;
    my $self = new LWP::UserAgent;
    bless($self, $class);
    return $self;
}

sub validURL {
    my ($self, $url) = @_;
    my $req = new HTTP::Request POST => $url;
    my $res = $self->request($req);    
    my $content = $res->content;
    return 0 unless $res->is_success;
    return 0 if $content =~ /the page you have requested cannot be fou
+nd/i;
    return 1;
}

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