hi, I'm working on a CGI page which constructs XML data, puts it into a scalar variable and posts it to a different website , where an ASP page receives the data and sends back an acknowledgement. The website which I'm posting to, requires that I pass a username and password in the URL (without which it generates an error "Username not sent in the posted data") Here's the block of the affected code 


my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
      my $remote_server = "100.100.100.100/ReceivingPage.asp?username=
+test&password=pwd";
 my $req = HTTP::Request->new(GET=>"http://$remote_server");
my $res = $ua->request($req);


      if ($res->is_success) {
          $req = HTTP::Request->new(POST=>"http://$remote_server");   
+                                                                     
+           $req->content_type('application/x-www-form-urlencoded');

              my $postvars = $request_xml;
             $req->content_length(length($postvars));
             $req->content($postvars);
             $res = $ua->request($req);

         if ($res->is_success) {
              my $xml_raw = $res->content;
              my $parsed = eval {XMLin($xml_raw) };
      ...

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Now my question is that when I'm POSTing the data, will the QueryString variables (username and password) be passed too ? Presently, the web site to which I'm posting the data to keeps complaining that I'm not sending the required Username and password.

Any help would be greatly appreciated...

Edit ar0n -- added code tags

In reply to POSTing QueryString data using LWP::UserAgent by screamingeagle

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