This snippet grabs the HTTP response and headers of a URL sent in through standard input.

Usage: scriptname URL

Update: As $code_or_die pointed out, this grabs the full response along with HTTP headers. This is the way I wanted it to work, so I've made this more clear in the title and description.
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w        #turn on warnings
use strict;                     #always use
use LWP::UserAgent;             #used for the request
use HTTP::Request::Common;      #used to build request

my ($link,$ua,$req,$results);   #declare variables

$link = shift;                  #grab link from standard input
$ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;      #create new user agent
$req = HTTP::Request->new(HEAD => $link);#grab the header   
$results = $ua->request($req)->as_string; #grab the results
print "$results";               #print the header info

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In reply to grab HTTP Response and Headers by agent00013

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