On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 10:35, Nigel Horne <n...@bandsman.co.uk> wrote: > How do I get the HEAD of the redirect message using the HEAD(1p) command? > > For example: > > HEAD http://www.ccdb.org.au/ > > gives you the header of the site you've redirected to, > > HEAD -S http://www.ccdb.org.au/ > > says: > > HEAD http://www.ccdb.org.au/ --> 302 Moved Temporarily > HEAD http://www.ccdb.org.au/xzt25b9/ --> 200 OK > Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, > pre-check=0 > Connection: close > ... > > Which doesn't help me, because the command hasn't actually printed the > contents of the first header :-(
There is no way to prevent redirects from being followed with lwp-request. I'm usually happy just using lwp-dump for cases like this. $ lwp-dump http://www.ccdb.org.au/ HTTP/1.1 302 Found Connection: Keep-Alive Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 12:57:12 GMT Location: http://www.ccdb.org.au/xzt25b9/ Server: Apache/2.2.15 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.15 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_bwlimited/1.4 Content-Length: 353 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=100 [...] If it's important that the method is 'HEAD' you can use something like: perl -MLWP -le 'LWP::UserAgent->new(max_redirect=>0)->head(shift)->dump' http://www.ccdb.org.au/ --Gisle
