Re: Getting HEAD of the redirect message

  On 22/08/10 14:04, Gisle Aas wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 10:35, Nigel Horne<[email protected]>  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