Setting Content-Type when POSTing with LWP

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

I'm using LWP to do a multi-part POST. In the body section associated with the file the header Content-Type header is set to Text/Plain.
How do I set it to something else (like Application/XML)?
example:

Content-Disposition: form-data; name="fname"; filename="deposit1.xml"
Content-Length: 1076
Content-Type: text/plain
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

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Re: Setting Content-Type when POSTing with LWP by Moonie (Friar) on Aug 29, 2002 at 21:51 UTC
See lwpcookbook for reference. An example: `my $req = HTTP::Request->new(POST => 'http://www.perl.com/cgi-bin/Bug +Glimpse'); $req->content_type('application/x-www-form-urlencoded'); $req->content('match=www&errors=0');` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Setting Content-Type when POSTing with LWP by larryk (Friar) on Aug 29, 2002 at 21:59 UTC
This is untested and I have to rush off but I hope it works `#!perl use strict; use warnings; use LWP::UserAgent; use HTTP::Headers; use HTTP::Request; my $content = join '', <DATA>; my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new(); my $h = HTTP::Headers->new( Content_Disposition => 'form-data; name="fname"; filename="deposit +1.xml"', Content_Length => length($content), Content_Type => 'text/xml' ); my $r = HTTP::Request->new('POST', 'http://search.cpan.org/', $h, $con +tent); my $response = $ua->request($r); __DATA__ <?xml version="1.0"?> ...` [download] larryk perl -le "s,,reverse killer,e,y,rifle,lycra,,print"	[reply] [d/l]