* Mike (meg@lilly.csoft.net) wrote:
> I was looking to create a cgi script so that I could just
> type in the name and let it rip
> 
Noones mentioned the HEAD perl script which comes with LWP perl
module.

% HEAD www.csoft.net
200 OK
Connection: close
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 23:59:15 GMT
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Server: Apache/1.3.23 (Unix)
Content-Length: 8382
Content-Type: text/html
ETag: "2d5292-20be-3c973851"
Last-Modified: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 13:08:33 GMT
Client-Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 23:55:37 GMT
Client-Peer: 63.111.26.128:80

could be convenient in a perl cgi...

hth,
Gontran