>If
>your host has perl, then the LWP libs will often install the helper
>scripts GET, HEAD, POST (probably others but those are the ones I use)
>in a local directory (/usr/bin/, /usr/local/bin). They are are handy for
>doing stuff like this.

If you install these scrips on a Mac, be sure not to overwrite the standard
Unix "head" program with the "HEAD" script.  Remember, the Mac OS X file system
is not case-sensitive!

I learned this the hard way. Fortunately, I was able to easily recover the 
overwriten
"head" file from a backup disk.
 
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