Passing both GET and POST params to HTTP Request

Doctrin has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello dear Monks :) Say, I want to POST to an url like http://mysite.org/some/url/?with=params&some=else with a basic authorization. So, I do:

my $HttpReq = HTTP::Request->new( POST => "http://mysite.org/some/url/
+?with=params&some=else");
$HttpReq->authorization_basic(&MY_LOGIN, &MY_PASSWORD);
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It works; BUT, is there a way to provide GET params more, say, gently, like that, maybe:

my $HttpReq = HTTP::Request->new( POST => "http://mysite.org/some/url"
+, getparams => [with => 'params',some => 'else']);
$HttpReq->authorization_basic(&MY_LOGIN, &MY_PASSWORD);
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Thanks in advance

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Re: Passing both GET and POST params to HTTP Request by moritz (Cardinal) on Feb 23, 2013 at 12:19 UTC
What you call "GET params" are just URL params. HTTP::Request doesn't have a special syntax for constructing an URL from path and parameter, that's not its job. But for example URI has a method `query_form` that can help you in constructing the URL. In general, HTTP::Request is pretty low level. If you want convenience, you might want to use a a more high-level abstraction (like LWP::UserAgent or Mojo::UserAgent or so). Perl 6 - the future is here, just unevenly distributed	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Passing both GET and POST params to HTTP Request by Doctrin (Beadle) on Feb 23, 2013 at 15:25 UTC
Thanks! URI would do the trick, I think :)	[reply]