lwp-request, GET, HEAD, POST - Simple WWW 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 time­
           out is '3m', i.e. 3 minutes.

       -i <time>
           Set the If-Modified-Since header in the request. If
           time it 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 the
           HTTP::Date manpage for recogniced 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

           tent-type for the others is `text/plain'.

       -p <proxy-url>
           Set the proxy to be used for the requests.  The pro­
           gram 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 spec­
           ify 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
           autorization 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 val­
           ues 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.

           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.

       -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

       the lwp-mirror manpage, the LWP manpage


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>


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