On 22/08/10 14:04, Gisle Aas wrote:
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.
I don't want to prevent the redirect from being followed, I want to see
the contents of the redirect's header.
$ 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/
I'll give that a go. Thanks
--Gisle
-Nigel
