After reading some wisdom on this site about
simulating POST with LWP, I tried it myself.
I was hoping to check an address on the USPS
site using this code:


#!/opt/gnu-irix/bin/perl

use strict;

use HTTP::Request::Common qw(POST);
use LWP::UserAgent;

my $ua = new LWP::UserAgent;

my $req = POST 'http://www.usps.com/cgi-bin/zip4/zip4inq2',
          [ 'Delivery Address' => '3601 Fallstone Court',
            'Zip Code' => '20744'
          ];

my $resp = $ua->request($req);

if ($resp->is_success())
{
  print $resp->content();
}
else
{
  print "Problem\n";
}

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When I run the program, it prints "Problem". Any
thoughts why my scripts fails to retrieve the data?
Thanks in advance for your help.

In reply to Yet another question on POSTing with LWP by Shizzle

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