I am trying to use LWP::UserAgent to get data from a simple web server I have created on an Arduino.

The request succeeds, but the decoded_content contains all of the response header. The information contained in the headers_as_string value is not sent from the server. The server sends "\r\n" for all line endings and an blank line with "\r\n" to mark the end of the header.

I have tried adding various attributes to the response header, but all had the same result of the header being in the decoded_content value.

Any thoughts on what may be causing the headers to be included in the content?

Thanks

Perl code 
#!/opt/local/bin/perl

use LWP::UserAgent;
use JSON;

use warnings;
use strict;


my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;

my $server_endpoint = "http://192.168.0.198/LED1";

my $req = HTTP::Request->new( GET => $server_endpoint );
$req->header('content-type' => 'application/json');


my $resp = $ua->request($req);
if ( $resp->is_success ) {
    my $header = $resp->headers_as_string;
    print "Received header:\n$header\n---------\n";
    my $message = $resp->decoded_content;
    print "Received reply:\n$message\n---------\n";

} else {
    print "HTTP GET error code: ", $resp->code, "\n";
    print "HTTP GET error message: ", $resp->message, "\n";
}

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Output from above code 
Received header:
Client-Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 22:45:08 GMT
Client-Peer: 192.168.0.198:80
Client-Response-Num: 1

---------
Received reply:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json
Connection: close

{"val":1}

---------

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