$ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;				# create new user agent object
$url = "$baseUrl$urlConfigFile";		# create URL for getting config ascii file

# set up HTTP REQUEST object
$httpReq = HTTP::Request->new(POST=>$url) ;			# init Request object
$httpReq-> content_type('application/x-www-form-urlencoded') ;
$httpReq->content('DownloadFormat=ascii');			# pass form variables
$httpReq-> authorization_basic($UID, $upassw) ;		# credentials
$strReq = $httpReq->as_string( );		# debug dump of Request object

print "\nThe Request:\n$strReq\n";
print "\n\nNow get the WSD config ascii file.\n";
print "Submitting browser request using url [$url].\n";

$httpResp = $ua->request($httpReq) ;				# launch request

$statusLine = $httpResp->status_line();
$statusCode = $httpResp->code();
$statusMsg = $httpResp->message();
print "HTTP Response: StatusLine[$statusLine] Code[$statusCode] Message[$statusMsg]\n";
if ($httpResp->is_success) {
	print "Request OK.\n";
}
else {
	die "Request failed.\n";
}
# ok, save content to file
open(FILEO, ">$asciiFile") || die "Error $! Could not open file $asciiFile.\n";
print FILEO $httpResp->content;
close(FILEO);