I am trying to post some xml to a web service but when I do this my browser returns and error about the format of my xml. However, if I try this from a command line I get what I expect in return. I think the issue might be related to the format of the data I am trying to post. I thought I might resolve this issue by trying to encode the message using uri_escape from the URI::Escape module but that did not appear to resolve the issue. Here is a sample of my code so far.

#!/usr/bin/perl

use warnings;
use strict;
use XML::Smart;
use LWP::UserAgent;
my $doc = XML::Smart->new();
$doc->{PHC_LOGIN}{USERID} = 'john.doe';
$doc->{PHC_LOGIN}{USERID}->set_node(1);
$doc->{PHC_LOGIN}{USERPASSWORD} = 'FAKEPASSWORD';
$doc->{PHC_LOGIN}{USERPASSWORD}->set_node(1);
$doc->{PHC_LOGIN}{PARTNERID} = '111';
$doc->{PHC_LOGIN}{PARTNERID}->set_node(1);

$doc->save('output.xml');

my $sendXML="output.xml";
my $webpage="https://example.com/Login/AutoLogin.aspx";

my $message="";
open (XML,$sendXML);
while (<XML>) {
        $message .="$_";
}
close XML;

my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
 $ua->add_handler("request_send",  sub { shift->dump; return });
 $ua->add_handler("response_done", sub { shift->dump; return });

$ua->proxy('https', 'http://proxy.example.net:8080/');
my $header= $ua->default_headers;
my $response = $ua->post($webpage, Content_Type => 'text/xml', Content
+ => $message);
$response->decoded_content;

if ($response->is_success) {
        my $html = $response->content;
        if ( $html =~ /\<REDIRECTURL\>(.*)\<\/REDIRECTURL\>/) {
                my $dest = $1;
                $ua->post($dest);
        } else {
        print "No redirect url found\n";
        };
        } else {
        die print $response->status_line;
        print $response->decoded_content;
};
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