vanja> Is it possible to check if URL is valid (if it exists) using
vanja> PERL?  I am sure that I have seen something about that topic on
vanja> Dejanews few days ago, but there's no way in hell I can find
vanja> that message again.

vanja> If someone can point me to any direction...

Yes:

        use LWP::Simple;
        print "it's valid" if get $url;

Can't be much simpler than that.

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Really? Then what's all this mumble-jumble about validating email
addresses?  Mailto: URLs are just a small subset of the possible
URLs. Furthermore, just because you cannot get a certain HTTP url doesn't
mean the URL isn't valid/non-existing - partly for the same reasons you
cannot validate email addresses.

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