How can I get the ultimate URL without fetching the pages using perl and LWP?

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I'm doing some web scraping using perl's LWP. I need to process a set of URLs, some of which may redirect (1 or more times).

How can I get ultimate url with all redirects resolved, using HEAD method ?

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