Abstract Links are cool. Links allow users to browse through information easily.
Links make the Web work.
Links are also the most confounded, annoying, hard to change, and mostly brain dead things to maintain. While we won't be covering link management techniques in this article, we will learn how to track external link hits. More specifically, we will develop a redirect script that will allow us to track when users click a link that takes them to an external site. Required Modules For redirect.pl to work on your system, you should have a recent version of Perl installed, 5.003 or better. You will also need the LWP bundle installed.