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, PUT and PATCH 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, PUT and PATCH.  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/

           If  the  header  name  is  prefixed with a colon it will not be canonicalized (See "NON-CANONICALIZED
           FIELD NAMES" in HTTP::Headers).

       -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 v5.40.1                                       2025-10-23                                    LWP-REQUEST(1p)