Perl (Scripting) - curl HTTPS (LWP::UserAgent, LWP::Protocol::https)

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Jeremy Canfield |
Updated: February 28 2023
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The LWP::UserAgent module can be used to issue a curl request and return the response. When the target is an HTTPS URL, the LWP::Protocol::https module will also need to be installed.
For example, let's say a request to https://www.example.com/foo should return "Hello World", and Dumper can be used to display the response.
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warning;
use LWP::UserAgent;
use LWP::Protocol::https;
use Data::Dumper;
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
my $request = HTTP::Request->new(GET => "https://www.example.com/foo");
my $response = $ua->request($request);
print Dumper $response;
Something like this should be returned.
$VAR1 = bless( {
'_protocol' => 'HTTP/1.1',
'_content' => 'Hello World',
'_rc' => '200'
});
And here is how you would print only the content.
print $response->decoded_content;
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