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

Is there any way to use LWP to retrieve webpages and POST data to them as well?

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RE: LWP and POST
by Kasei (Novice) on Jan 06, 2000 at 06:20 UTC
    from the LWP documentation: 
    # Create a request
my $req = new HTTP::Request POST => 'http://www.perl.com/cgi-bin/BugGl
+impse';
$req->content_type('application/x-www-form-urlencoded');
$req->content('match=www&errors=0');

# Pass request to the user agent and get a response back
my $res = $ua->request($req);

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      OK, now how can one know if the call succeded or failed and how it failed?
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        Did you ever get an answer on this? Looks like not publically, at least.

        The object stored in $res (as given in the above example) has methods you can get at to find out what you want to know. Try this after the code Kasei provided: 

        if ($res->is_success) {
     print $res->content;
} else {
     print $res->error_as_HTML;
}

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        I hope you can extract from that sample; let me know if you need more info. By the way, I really like Web Client Programming with Perl but, alas, it's no longer in print. Betcha could find a used copy out there somewhere.

             - Muse

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