So no matter how much you yell at it it wont get a job?

:-)
Ok seriously, you'll have to explain what you mean by that cause next is the way to do this. Of course you havent said where $response gets set so its a bit hard to tell where the next should go of course, so I've done it like this:

while (<IN>) {
    $url = $_;
    $response = somefunc();
    next if $response==500;
    unless($response == 200) {
    }
}
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Yves
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