Re^2: Runs from Command Line but NOT from Perl

I did try with LWP but I get the same perplexing problem!!! I'm trying to go to https://taxfoundation.org/2018-tax-reform-calculator/ and use their tax calculator from Perl. I am TOTALLY bamboozakled on why this is failing!

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use HTTP::Request::Common qw( POST );
use LWP::UserAgent;

my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
    
my $req = POST 'https://tax-calculator-api.taxfoundation.org/taxcalc/t
+cja_submit',
    [
        Host              => 'tax-calculator-api.taxfoundation.org',
        Connection        => 'keep-alive',
        Origin            => 'https://taxfoundation.org',
        'User-Agent'      => 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64
+) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/69.0.3497.100 Safari/
+537.36',
        'content-type'    => 'application/json',
        Accept            => '*/*',
        Referer           => 'https://taxfoundation.org/2018-tax-refor
+m-calculator/',
        'Accept-Encoding' => 'gzip, deflate, br',
        'Accept-Language' => 'en-US,en;q=0.9',
        Content           => [
            '401k_contributions'    => 0,
            business_income         => 0,
            charity_contributions   => 0,
            child_dep               => 2,
            filing_status           => 2,
            interest_paid           => 0,
            medical_expenses        => 0,
            nonchild_dep            => 0,
            ordinary_income1        => 150000,
            ordinary_income2        => 0,
            other_itemized          => 0,
            qualified_income        => 0,
            sl_income_tax           => 0,
            sl_property_tax         => 0,
            ss_income               => 0,
        ],
    ];

print $ua->request($req)->as_string;
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Re^3: Runs from Command Line but NOT from Perl by poj (Abbot) on Oct 19, 2018 at 06:24 UTC
why this is failing Because `content-type' => 'application/json'` you have to json encode the content #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use HTTP::Request::Common qw( POST ); use LWP::UserAgent; use Encode qw(encode_utf8); use JSON::MaybeXS qw(encode_json); my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new; my $data = { '401k_contributions' => 0, business_income => 0, charity_contributions => 0, child_dep => 2, filing_status => 2, interest_paid => 0, medical_expenses => 0, nonchild_dep => 0, ordinary_income1 => 150000, ordinary_income2 => 0, other_itemized => 0, qualified_income => 0, sl_income_tax => 0, sl_property_tax => 0, ss_income => 0, }; my $content = encode_utf8(encode_json($data)); my $req = POST 'https://tax-calculator-api.taxfoundation.org/taxcalc/t +cja_submit', Host => 'tax-calculator-api.taxfoundation.org', Connection => 'keep-alive', Origin => 'https://taxfoundation.org', 'User-Agent' => 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64 +) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/69.0.3497.100 Safari/ +537.36', 'content-type' => 'application/json', Accept => '/', Referer => 'https://taxfoundation.org/2018-tax-refor +m-calculator/', 'Accept-Encoding' => 'gzip, deflate, br', 'Accept-Language' => 'en-US,en;q=0.9', Content => $content ; #print $req->as_string; print $ua->request($req)->as_string; [download] poj	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Runs from Command Line but NOT from Perl by Anonymous Monk on Oct 19, 2018 at 08:15 UTC
`my $content = encode_utf8(encode_json($data));` Note: at least encode_json of JSON::PP produces a byte-string already encoded to UTF-8, so encoding it once more will lead to bugs the moment you encounter a non-ASCII character in the document.	[reply] [d/l]