# create the user agent we want to use to check the websites
	my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new(agent => 'Opera/9.80 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X; U; en) Presto/2.2.15 Version/10.00');
	$ua->default_header(ACCEPT_LANGUAGE => 'en');
	$ua->max_redirect(24);

	my $req = HTTP::Request->new(GET => $uri);
	$req->header('Accept' => 'text/html');
	
	my $res = $ua->head( $uri );
	return $res->status_line();