Your $request is not what you think (or hope) it to be. Here is a trivial demo:

#!/usr/bin/env perl 
use strict;
use warnings;
use HTTP::Request;
use Data::Dumper;

my $request = HTTP::Request->new;
print "Object:\n", Dumper $request;
print "Hash:\n", Dumper %$request;

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This will produce (versions depending) something like:

Object:
$VAR1 = bless( {
                 '_uri' => undef,
                 '_content' => '',
                 '_headers' => bless( {}, 'HTTP::Headers' ),
                 '_method' => undef
               }, 'HTTP::Request' );
Hash:
$VAR1 = '_uri';
$VAR2 = undef;
$VAR3 = '_content';
$VAR4 = '';
$VAR5 = '_headers';
$VAR6 = bless( {}, 'HTTP::Headers' );
$VAR7 = '_method';
$VAR8 = undef;

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It is therefore highly probable as everyone else has surmised that you have accidentally stringified $request at some point in the code you have not shown. The Basic Debugging Checklist may help you to pinpoint where that happens.

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In reply to Re: Data::Dumper output by hippo
in thread Data::Dumper output by Bod

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