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.IX Title "MECH-DUMP 1"
.TH MECH-DUMP 1 "2023-04-27" "perl v5.16.3" "User Contributed Perl Documentation"
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.SH "NAME"
mech\-dump \- Dumps information about a web page
.SH "VERSION"
.IX Header "VERSION"
version 2.17
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.IX Header "SYNOPSIS"
mech-dump [options] [file|url]
.PP
Options:
.PP
.Vb 5
\&    \-\-headers              Dump HTTP response headers
\&    \-\-forms                Dump table of forms (default action)
\&    \-\-links                Dump table of links
\&    \-\-images               Dump table of images
\&    \-\-all                  Dump all four of the above, in that order
\&
\&    \-\-text                 Dumps the textual part of the web page
\&
\&    \-\-user=user            Set the username
\&    \-\-password=pass        Set the password
\&    \-\-cookie\-file=filename Set the filename to use for persistent cookies
\&
\&    \-\-agent=agent          Specify the UserAgent to pass
\&    \-\-agent\-alias=alias
\&                           Specify the alias for the UserAgent to pass.
\&                           Pick one of:
\&                               * Windows IE 6
\&                               * Windows Mozilla
\&                               * Mac Safari
\&                               * Mac Mozilla
\&                               * Linux Mozilla
\&                               * Linux Konqueror
\&
\&    \-\-absolute             Show URLs as absolute, even if relative in the page
\&    \-\-help                 Show this message
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The order of the options specified is relevant.  Repeated options
get repeated dumps.
.PP
\&\f(CW\*(C`mech\-dump\*(C'\fR will only work on \s-1HTML\s0 documents when used on remote URLs, but
will assume any local file you pass it is \s-1HTML.\s0 If it is not, there won't be
any usable results.
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Proxy settings are specified through the environment (e.g. \f(CW\*(C`http_proxy=http://proxy.my.place/\*(C'\fR).
See LWP::UserAgent for details.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.IX Header "SEE ALSO"
WWW::Mechanize
.SH "AUTHOR"
.IX Header "AUTHOR"
Andy Lester <andy at petdance.com>
.SH "COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE"
.IX Header "COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE"
This software is copyright (c) 2004 by Andy Lester.
.PP
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.