[MacPerl] web link validator

[Xah Lee <xah@best.com>]

A Very simple question.

I want to check if an URL is valid. How to do it? (what module to use?)

Background:
I'm trying to write a simple link validator as an exercise.
What's a an existing validor as a perl module that I can look at?

Btw, the app BigBrother is a link validator for the mac. It's homepage can be easily found.

Btw, I knew that I can get the content text by using, e.g.

use LWP::Simple;
my $content = get(qq($url));

But this is overkill.

Thanks.

 Xah, xah@best.com
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