Suppose you’re given an URL, http://site.com . How do you find out what it’s content type is without downloading it? Can Perl’s WWW::Mechanize or LWP issue a HEAD request?
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Suppose you’re given an URL, http://site.com . How do you find out what it’s content type is without downloading it? Can Perl’s WWW::Mechanize or LWP issue a HEAD request?
You can use
head()method of LWP in following manner