The required syntax for HTTP request is:

$fp_request = new HTTP::Request('POST', $url, [ $header, [$content]]);
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Every HTTP transaction must have a valid header and then two \n\n. It may or may not have a body. You have two problems. 1) no header (this needs to be a reference to an HTTP::Headers object) and 2) syntax error with your square brackets - they are not literal, they indicate optional arguments!

use LWP::UserAgent;
use strict;

my $header = new HTTP::Header (
    Name => 'value',
    Date => 'Wed, 03 Apr 2002 00:00:00 GMT',
    Content_Type => 'text/html' );

my $body = 'This is the body of the request!';

my $req = new HTTP::Request('POST', $url, $header, $body );

print $req->as_string
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You may have been thinking of using HTTP::Request::Common which uses that sort of syntax to produce a query string formatted body from an array ref.

cheers

tachyon

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