in reply to POST on LWP::Simple

You don't. Either use LWP::UserAgent, or the POST (or lwp-request) utility that comes with LWP. As the description of LWP::Simple says: 
       This module is meant for people who want a simplified view
       of the libwww-perl library.  It should also be suitable
       for one-liners.  If you need more control or access to the
       header fields in the requests sent and responses received,
       then you should use the full object-oriented interface
       provided by the "LWP::UserAgent" module.

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Re: Re: POST on LWP::Simple
by Gorby (Monk) on Feb 08, 2004 at 18:24 UTC
    How then do I use POST using LWP::UserAgent? Can you give an example? Thanks. Gorby.
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      Straight from lwpcook:

      Lazy people use the HTTP::Request::Common module to set up a suitable POST request message (it handles all the escaping issues) and has a suitable default for the content_type: 
        use HTTP::Request::Common qw(POST);
  use LWP::UserAgent;
  $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;

  my $req = POST 'http://www.perl.com/cgi-bin/BugGlimpse',
                [ search => 'www', errors => 0 ];

  print $ua->request($req)->as_string;

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      How then do I use POST using LWP::UserAgent?
      Did you bother to read the documentation of LWP::UserAgent? If so, could you indicate which part about using POST was unclear to you?

      Abigail

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