Hi HollyWould,

From your example log message, it looks to me like the parameters key, source and format are supposed to be encoded into the URI - whether or not they're also part of the POST body I can't tell, you'd have to take a look at the traffic (e.g. Wireshark) and tell us more about that.

It's been a while since I used raw LWP, so I might be forgetting an easier way, but one way to get those parameters onto the URI is with URI:

# ...
use URI;
my $uri = URI->new($server_endpoint);
$uri->query_form(
    key    => $server_api_key,
    source => $encoded,
    format => "json",
);
my $req = HTTP::Request->new(POST => $uri);
# ...

[download]

This gets me the URL query string ...?key=xxxx&source=http%3A%2F%2Fphotos.mysite.com%2F128.jpg&format=json which looks like what you want.

Hope this helps,
-- Hauke D

In reply to Re: LWP not POSTING (400 Bad Request) by haukex
in thread LWP not POSTING (400 Bad Request) by HollyWould

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