I've browes/searched the discussions on this site and didn't see an answer or help to my question, so here it is:

Question: How would I use LWP (or similar lib/mod) to get HTTP headers? (not just the HTML code after the 'Content-type' in the header)

I have a script that will sucessfully get HTML code from a remote web server, that's not a problem at all. I've been reading all over the place and even looking at the LWP source to no avail. The reason I want to get the headers is because I need to view all the data my web server spews out as a result of a HTTP request. I need to see if a cookie is being passed back to the client, and capture it. If anyone can tell me that I'm going about this all wrong and why, or that there's a simple mehod of getting an entire HTTP response (not just the HTML code after the 'Content-type') that'd be great!

In reply to Obtaining HTTP Headers using LWP by Arroze

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.