It looks like the syntax of the
HTTP::Request::Common's
POST function, except you replaced the call to
POST with the string
POST. And then you commented out that line entirely! The following is closer to what you want
use HTTP::Request::Common qw( POST );
my $request = POST($url,
action => 'Count',
name => 'datafile',
Content_Type => 'multipart/form-data',
Content => [ 'file' => [ $ballot_file ]]
);
But you're not quite there yet. You have content fields outside of Content. Fixed:
use HTTP::Request::Common qw( POST );
my $request = POST($url,
Content_Type => 'multipart/form-data',
Content => [
file => [ $ballot_file ],
action => 'Count',
name => 'datafile',
],
);
The example in the docs is
POST 'http://www.perl.org/survey.cgi',
Content_Type => 'form-data',
Content => [ name => 'Gisle Aas',
email => 'gisle@aas.no',
gender => 'M',
born => '1964',
init => ["$ENV{HOME}/.profile"],
]
I don't know how you got from that to what you posted. Or maybe you didn't bother to read the docs...
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