Hi Monks, I am trying to send a POST request using LWP::UserAgent and HTTP::Request. The example I was given looks a bit weird to me but this is it: 
POST /endpoint?user=yyy&pass=zzz HTTP/1.1
Host: api.xxx.com
Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=----WebKitFormBoundary7MA4
+YWxkTrZu0gW

----WebKitFormBoundary7MA4YWxkTrZu0gW

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This is the code I have tried: 
my $url = 'https://api.xxx.com/endpoint?user=yyy&pass=zzz';
my $request = HTTP::Request->new( 'POST', $url );
$request->content_type('multipart/form-data');
print $request->as_string;
my $response = $ua->request($request);
print $response->as_string;

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The request 
POST https://api.xxx.com/endpoint?user=yyy&pass=zzz
Content-Type: multipart/form-data

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The response: 
HTTP Error 411. The request must be chunked or have a content length.

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How can I get HTTP::Request to do this. I tried giving it a content of empty string but no different. TIA for any help

In reply to POST request problem by bangor

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