#469350 GET -U doesn't show all the headers

Package:
libwww-perl
Source:
libwww-perl
Submitter:
Date:
2010-10-04 09:09:09 UTC
Severity:
minor
#469350#5
Date:
2008-03-04 19:05:15 UTC
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Man page says
       -U  Print request headers in addition to request method and absolute URL.
And we see
    GET http://zzz
    User-Agent: lwp-request/2.08
However tcpflow reveals the missing "HTTP/1.1", and indeed several other
lines of headers being sent.
#469350#10
Date:
2009-02-28 11:23:10 UTC
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tag 469350 +moreinfo
thanks

Hi,
can you please provide an example with all the differences between
the two tools?

Cheers
Antonio
#469350#17
Date:
2010-10-04 08:11:16 UTC
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You can get the real output by doing:

tcpdump -i lo -w tcpdump.txt


and the output in question by doing

HEAD -U http://localhost/

In the former we have

GET / HTTP/1.1
TE: deflate,gzip;q=0.3
Connection: TE, close
Host: localhost
User-Agent: lwp-request/5.834 libwww-perl/5.836

In the latter

GET http://localhost
User-Agent: lwp-request/5.834 libwww-perl/5.836


I am not entirely sure that this is a real problem, but at least there
is a prima facie case.