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in reply to Sending a text file using POST

$req->header('x-auth-token' => 'Token e45ttkfksj48sdfj4jd9abcdd');

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Are you sure that the other side wants the header name all lowercase?

$req->content($filename);

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This sends the filename, not the file content. Is that what you want?

Also, if the server sends a 404, are you really, really sure that you're using the correct URL? Your URL ends with a slash, maybe you should leave that out? What other ways do you have to verify the correctness of the URL you use?

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Re^2: Sending a text file using POST
by Anonymous Monk on Feb 11, 2016 at 14:58 UTC
    The URL is 100% correct, tried with and without the slash.
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Re^2: Sending a text file using POST
by Anonymous Monk on Feb 11, 2016 at 15:16 UTC
    I need to send the file content not the file name, how do to about it, any suggestions?
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Re^2: Sending a text file using POST
by Anonymous Monk on Feb 11, 2016 at 15:30 UTC
    I updated the code to read the file content using "File::Slurp".
    #!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use LWP::UserAgent;
use File::Slurp;
use Data::Dumper;

my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new();

my $server_endpoint = "https://www.tothesite.com/place/44498/";
 
# set custom HTTP request header fields
my $req = HTTP::Request->new(POST => $server_endpoint);

$req->headers();
print Dumper( $req->headers() );

$req->header('x-auth-token' => 'Token e45ttkfksj48sdfj4jd9abcdd');
 
# add POST data to HTTP request body
my $filename = "first_text.txt";
my $data_file = read_file( $filename, { binmode => ':raw' } );

$req->content($data_file);
 
my $resp = $ua->request($req);

if ($resp->is_success) {
    
    my $message = $resp->decoded_content;
    print "Received reply: $message\n";
    
}else {
    
    print "HTTP POST error code: ", $resp->code, "\n";
    print "HTTP POST error message: ", $resp->message, "\n";
    
}

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    Now I am getting this error:
    HTTP POST error code: 500
    Do you know if this line is code syntax correct?
     $req->header('x-auth-token' => 'Token e45ttkfksj48sdfj4jd9abcdd');
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      I don't know. Maybe the documentation of the endpoint you're talking to has more information on what it expects?

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        I even added this line before the "header":
        $req->content_type('multipart/form-data');
        And still an error; multi-part form data parse error.
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