Manual: lwp-dump

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NAME
       lwp-dump - See what headers and content is returned for a URL

SYNOPSIS
       lwp-dump [ options ] URL

DESCRIPTION
       The lwp-dump program will get the resource identified by the URL and then dump the response object to STDOUT.  This
       will display the headers returned and the initial part of the content, escaped so that it's safe to display even
       binary content.	The escapes syntax used is the same as for Perl's double quoted strings.  If there is no content the
       string "(no content)" is shown in its place.

       The following options are recognized:

       --agent string
	   Override the user agent string passed to the server.

       --keep-client-headers
	   LWP	internally  generate  various  "Client-*" headers that are stripped by lwp-dump in order to show the headers
	   exactly as the server provided them.	 This option will suppress this.

       --max-length n
	   How much of the content to show.  The default is 512.  Set this to 0 for unlimited.

	   If the content is longer then the string is chopped at the limit and the string "...\n(### more bytes not shown)"
	   appended.

       --method string
	   Use the given method for the request instead of the default "GET".

       --parse-head
	   By default lwp-dump will not try to initialize headers by looking at the head section of  HTML  documents.	This
	   option enables this.	 This corresponds to "parse_head" in LWP::UserAgent.

       --request
	   Also dump the request sent.

SEE ALSO
       lwp-request, LWP, "dump" in HTTP::Message

perl v5.40.1						 2026-05-22						LWP-DUMP(1p)