I've been sitting here the better part of a few hours trying to get a simple POST to a form to work using the LWP module. I've tried a few different ways of building the request, but no matter what I do, I get back a 400 error from apache. Here's the code I'm using now: 
my $req = new HTTP::Request POST => '$sitehit';
$req->content_type('application/x-www-form-urlencoded');
$req->content('siteurl=$incoming{\'site\'}');
my $res = $ua->request($req); 
print "<br>Result:<br>\n";
print $res->as_string;

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$sitehit is defined with a fully qualified URL to a PHP script looking for form input.

$incoming{'site'} is defined with a dummy URL just to give it something to pass to the form.

I have it printing all variables to the screen before it makes it's requests, so I know they are defined properly. Each time I run the script, I get back this:
400 (Bad Request) URL must be absolute

I know it's got to be something simple I overlooked. This is my first attempt at using LWP and the POST method. Any help at all is greatly appreciated.

In reply to LWP Post And My Pained Brain by fuzzball

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