Good day, Monks.
I'm trying to make link checker using LWP. Here's my "main" part:
use LWP;
my $Browser = LWP::UserAgent->new;
$Browser->agent("Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98)");
$Browser->timeout(10);
my $url = 'http://perlmonks.org';
my $Response = $Browser->head($url);
if ($Response->is_success) {
#OK
} else {
#BAD
}

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Everything is fine, until head request is working. For example this cool HP link can't be fetched with head request - server sends 500 (Internal Server Error). So, seems that i have to use get. But i don't want to make such traffic (there will be ~1500 of links that must be checked every day).
So far i found max_size($bytes) property of the LWP::UserAgent. But it's not working (whole page is loaded by perl).

Is there any other way (without direct usage of sockets)?

In reply to Checking page existance by Nygeve

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