lwp-request

Simple command-line HTTP client. Built with libwww-perl. More information: <https://metacpan.org/pod/lwp-request>.

Install

All systems
curl cmd.cat/lwp-request.sh
Debian Debian
apt-get install libwww-perl
Ubuntu
apt-get install libwww-perl
Alpine
apk add perl-libwww
Arch Arch Linux
pacman -S perl-libwww
image/svg+xml Kali Linux
apt-get install libwww-perl
CentOS
yum install perl-libwww-perl
Fedora
dnf install perl-libwww-perl
Windows (WSL2)
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install libwww-perl
Raspbian
apt-get install libwww-perl
Dockerfile
dockerfile.run/lwp-request
Docker
docker run cmd.cat/lwp-request lwp-request powered by Commando

Simple command-line HTTP client. Built with libwww-perl. More information: <https://metacpan.org/pod/lwp-request>.

  • Make a simple GET request:
    lwp-request -m GET http://example.com/some/path
  • Upload a file with a POST request:
    lwp-request -m POST http://example.com/some/path < path/to/file
  • Make a request with a custom user agent:
    lwp-request -H 'User-Agent: user_agent -m METHOD http://example.com/some/path
  • Make a request with HTTP authentication:
    lwp-request -C username:password -m METHOD http://example.com/some/path
  • Make a request and print request headers:
    lwp-request -U -m METHOD http://example.com/some/path
  • Make a request and print response headers and status chain:
    lwp-request -E -m METHOD http://example.com/some/path

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