lwp-request5

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




NAME
       lwp-request - Simple command line user agent

SYNOPSIS
       lwp-request [-afPuUsSedvhx] [-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.

       -P  Don't load proxy settings from environment.

       -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.

       -E  Print response status chain with full response headers.

       -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.

       -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 v5.30.2                       2020-04-14                     LWP-REQUEST(1)