The following script is an attempt to automate the remote administration of my website using LWP. It attempts to submit the fields 'email' and 'passwd.' 
# Jonathan S. Mark jonathansamuel@yahoo.com
# Program to log on to Alxnet

use strict;
use LWP;
use HTTP::Request::Common;

use constant ALX_ENTER => 'http://www.alxnet.com/controlcenter/';
use constant ALX_REFERER => 'http://www.alxnet.com';

my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
my $newagent = 'enter_alxnet/1.0 (' . $ua->agent . ')'; #identifies ap
+p to net. Not important.
$ua->agent($newagent);

my $request = POST (ALX_ENTER, Content => [email => 'jonathansamuel@ya
+hoo.com', passwd => 'subforactualvalue', t => 'alxnet_signup'], Refer
+er => ALX_REFERER);
my $response = $ua->request($request)->as_string;
print $response;

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Unfortunately, running this LWP script returns a message from the server similar to the following:

HTTP/1.1 302 Found Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate Connection: close Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 10:31:11 GMT Pragma: no-cache Location: /controlcenter/?u=100000&p=0x1000000000000 Server: Apache/1.3.17 (Unix) PHP/4.0.4pl1 mod_perl/1.25 Content-Type: text/html Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1990 05:00:00 GMT Last-Modified: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 10:31:13GMT Client-Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 11:38:28 GMT Client-Peer: 209.92.32.185:80

Can anyone clue me in what is going on here. What does 'no-cache, must revalidate' mean? What do I have to do using LWP to avoid this problem?

In reply to Posting Form with LWP Produces 'no-cache, must revalidate' Error by sierrathedog04

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