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Try using LWP::Debug. Example
C:\>lwp-request -x http://search.cpan.org/
LWP::UserAgent::new: ()
LWP::UserAgent::request: ()
LWP::UserAgent::send_request: GET http://search.cpan.org/
LWP::UserAgent::_need_proxy: Not proxied
LWP::Protocol::http::request: ()
LWP::Protocol::collect: read 689 bytes
LWP::Protocol::collect: read 1696 bytes
LWP::Protocol::collect: read 1231 bytes
LWP::UserAgent::request: Simple response: OK
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
 <head>
****SNIP****
C:\>

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lwp-request

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