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LWP-REQUEST(1)                       User Contributed Perl Documentation                      LWP-REQUEST(1)



NAME
       lwp-request - Simple command line user agent

SYNOPSIS
        lwp-request [-aeEdvhx] [-m method] [-b <base URL>] [-t <timeout>]
                    [-i <if-modified-since>] [-c <content-type>] [-C <credentials>]
                    [-p <proxy-url>] [-o <format>] <url>...

DESCRIPTION
       This program can be used to send requests to WWW servers and your local file system. The request
       content for POST and PUT methods is read from stdin.  The content of the response is printed on
       stdout.  Error messages are printed on stderr.  The program returns a status value indicating the
       number of URLs that failed.

       The options are:

       -m <method>
           Set which method to use for the request.  If this option is not used, then the method is derived
           from the name of the program.

       -f  Force request through, even if the program believes that the method is illegal.  The server might
           reject the request eventually.

       -b <uri>
           This URI will be used as the base URI for resolving all relative URIs given as argument.

       -t <timeout>
           Set the timeout value for the requests.  The timeout is the amount of time that the program will
           wait for a response from the remote server before it fails.  The default unit for the timeout
           value is seconds.  You might append "m" or "h" to the timeout value to make it minutes or hours,
           respectively.  The default timeout is '3m', i.e. 3 minutes.

       -i <time>
           Set the If-Modified-Since header in the request. If time is the name of a file, use the
           modification timestamp for this file. If time is not a file, it is parsed as a literal date. Take
           a look at HTTP::Date for recognized formats.

       -c <content-type>
           Set the Content-Type for the request.  This option is only allowed for requests that take a
           content, i.e. POST and PUT.  You can force methods to take content by using the "-f" option
           together with "-c".  The default Content-Type for POST is "application/x-www-form-urlencoded".
           The default Content-type for the others is "text/plain".

       -p <proxy-url>
           Set the proxy to be used for the requests.  The program also loads proxy settings from the
           environment.  You can disable this with the "-P" option.

       -H <header>
           Send this HTTP header with each request. You can specify several, e.g.:

               lwp-request \
                   -H 'Referer: http://other.url/' \
                   -H 'Host: somehost' \
                   http://this.url/

       -C <username>:<password>
           Provide credentials for documents that are protected by Basic Authentication.  If the document is
           protected and you did not specify the username and password with this option, then you will be
           prompted to provide these values.

       The following options controls what is displayed by the program:

       -u  Print request method and absolute URL as requests are made.

       -U  Print request headers in addition to request method and absolute URL.

       -s  Print response status code.  This option is always on for HEAD requests.

       -S  Print response status chain. This shows redirect and authorization requests that are handled by
           the library.

       -e  Print response headers.  This option is always on for HEAD requests.

       -d  Do not print the content of the response.

       -o <format>
           Process HTML content in various ways before printing it.  If the content type of the response is
           not HTML, then this option has no effect.  The legal format values are; text, ps, links, html and
           dump.

           If you specify the text format then the HTML will be formatted as plain latin1 text.  If you
           specify the ps format then it will be formatted as Postscript.

           The links format will output all links found in the HTML document.  Relative links will be
           expanded to absolute ones.

           The html format will reformat the HTML code and the dump format will just dump the HTML syntax
           tree.

           Note that the "HTML-Tree" distribution needs to be installed for this option to work.  In
           addition the "HTML-Format" distribution needs to be installed for -o text or -o ps to work.

       -v  Print the version number of the program and quit.

       -h  Print usage message and quit.

       -x  Extra debugging output.

       -a  Set text(ascii) mode for content input and output.  If this option is not used, content input and
           output is done in binary mode.

       Because this program is implemented using the LWP library, it will only support the protocols that
       LWP supports.

SEE ALSO
       lwp-mirror, LWP

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright 1995-1999 Gisle Aas.

       This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl
       itself.

AUTHOR
       Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>



perl v5.8.8                                      2005-12-06                                   LWP-REQUEST(1)