LWP Analysis

I sometimes need to check exactly what data a webserver has returned for a URL without letting a browser interfere & reinterpret any of it, so this perl script follows me around.

It will print out the HTTP header (including cookies) and the full body for a URL given on the command line.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use LWP::UserAgent;
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new(
                             keep_alive => 1,
                             timeout => 30,
                             debug => 1
                             );
my $body = $ua->get($ARGV[0]);
print $body->as_string;
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