Re: Obtaining verbose info for http transfers.


"Simon Taylor" <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hello Rob,
>
> > One of the nice things about Net::FTP is that if you run it with
debugging
> > switched on, you get a report of the actual communication that's taking
> > place between the local box and the remote ftp server.
>
> Yes, it's rather slick.
>
> > Is there a module that provides the same sort of report in relation to
http
> > downloads ?
>
> I've sometimes used the LWP GET command as follows:
>
> GET -Sdxu http://www.yahoo.com.au
>

That's a nix command, right ? It's probably the sort of thing I'm looking
for ... but I'm on Win32 :-)

I half expected that LWP::UserAgent or HTTP::Request/Response might
implement the verbosity I'm after since they obviously know all about the
http protocol, but I can't find anything in their docs that helps in that
regard.

I vaguely recall having used some sniffer type (non-perl) program a few
years back .... I might have to google that up again if there's no
ready-made perl solution.

Cheers,
Rob





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