This is odd: I'm trying to post a form that has fields with underscores in them. It appears that LWP converts the underscores to hyphens. Can that be? {my problem is that the post doesn't work and I am trying to figure out why not} When I GET the page with the form on it and scrape it for INPUT fields, I find 
[...]
$VAR53 = 'slagk%40xx.com_nomail';
$VAR54 = 'on';
$VAR55 = 'slagk%40xx.com_nodupes';
$VAR56 = 'on';
[...]

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but when I use Dumper to look at the _request object, it tells me
[...]
                     'slagk%40xx.com-plain' => 'on',
                      'slagk%40xx.com-nomail' => 'on',
                      'qoz%40puz.org-language' => 'en',
[...]

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I looked at the code in HTTP::Request::Common and didn't see anything obvious that might be causing this {if this is actually happening, of course}

two questions: is LWP really converting underscores to hyphens? And if so, how can I pass an underscore through to the web server.

In reply to POST fieldnames with underscores by BernieC

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