$ lwp-request -m head http://example.com 200 OK Connection: close Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 09:17:18 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS) Vary: Accept-Encoding Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Last-Modified: Wed, 09 Feb 2011 17:13:15 GMT Client-Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 09:24:41 GMT Client-Peer: 192.0.32.8:80 Client-Response-Num: 1 $ perl -MLWP::Simple -le " print for head( shift ) " http://example.com text/html; charset=UTF-8 1297271595 Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS)