use LWP::UserAgent; $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new( # agent => 'Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120121 Firefox/3.0.5', # ssl_opts => { verify_hostname => 0, SSL_verify_mode => 0, SSL_verifycn_scheme => 'none' }, ); $response = $ua->head("$get_url"); print $response->dump();