On an NT I have a script that checks a web page to find if all the links are working. It works fine when checking regular links such as 'www.dom.com' but I need some editing to correct my other problems. Problem I have is I want this to output to a file but I cant get the output part to work. Also it has a problem with: target info such as "http://work.dom.com"  TARGET="_top" it says bad link. Is there anything I can do like a regular expression so it just checks the link and not the TARGET part? 
use LWP::UserAgent;
use HTTP::Request;
use HTTP::Response;

my $browser = LWP::UserAgent->new();
$browser->timeout(5);

open(HTMLPAGE,"</perl/bin/web.html") or die "$!\n";
while (<HTMLPAGE>) { $buf .= $_; }
close HTMLPAGE;

while ($buf =~ /<a href="(.*?)">/gis)  {
my $link = $1;
print "Checking $link.\n";
my $request = HTTP::Request->new(GET => $link);
my $response = $browser->request($request);
if ($response->is_error()) 
{
open(STDOUT, "> /perl/bin/outr.txt");                             
printf "%s\n", $response->status_line; 
close( STDOUT );
                               
}
$contents = $response->content(); 
                           
 #PLEASE HELP ME ALSO ON THIS PART TO MAKE IT MORE EFFICIENT          
+               
if ($contents =~ /Not Found|error|sorry|
redirect|autoforward|frameset/ix)
{ print "Bad Link, $&\n$link.\n\n"; }

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