I'm retrieving HTTP headers from files in order to determine if the link is good, bad, or unauthorized. However, when I test against some CGI scripts on the site, The header returns "HTTP/1.1 403 (Forbidden) invalid method." I'm trying to determine if the CGI ... 1) is alive and there, or 2) does it find what it was sent to search for.

Am I simply trying to access the CGI inproperly or is there something else that's wrong? Thanks for any help you can provide.


Note: I do not have access to look at/modify this CGI.

Code: 
use LWP::UserAgent;
use LWP::Simple;
use HTTP::Request::Common;

$link = 
"http://www.mycorpsite.com/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/AppLogic+emd.query?full=yes&
+uid=lamer";
$ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
$req = HTTP::Request->new(GET => $link);
$results =
$ua->request(HTTP::Request::Common::HEAD($link))->as_string;
print "$results";

[download]
Output: 
HTTP/1.1 403 (Forbidden) invalid method
Connection: close
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 15:32:49 GMT
Server: Netscape-Enterprise/3.6 SP3
Content-Length: 152
Content-Type: text/html
Client-Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 15:32:50 GMT
Client-Peer: 151.119.136.124:80

In reply to HTTP Headers returned from CGI... by agent00013

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