#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use LWP::Simple; use HTTP::Cache::Transparent; if( scalar( @ARGV ) != 1 ) { print << "EOD"; usage: check_server Fetches a url via the HTTP::Cache::Transparent module in verbose mode. Uses an ApproveContent sub that only approves responses with a successful response-code. EOD exit; } my( $url ) = @ARGV; HTTP::Cache::Transparent::init( { BasePath => "/tmp/cache", # Directory to store the cache in. Verbose => 1, # Print messages to STDERR. Default is 0. NoUpdate => 0, ApproveContent => sub { return $_[0]->is_success(); }, } ); # Fetch once my $data = get( $url ); print $data;