Hi Monks!

I am trying to send text files ( using only one file here ) to a site's directory "https://www.tothesite.com/place/44498/", using POST.
I am getting a 404 error, but the url is correct. I think my problem is with the Perl, am I using the right way to use POST to send a file through HTTPS, any suggestion?

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use LWP::UserAgent;
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 = "/var/www/location/first_text.txt";

$req->content($filename);
 
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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Thanks for looking!

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