To be more specific, basically I am calling a mapping server with lots of postcodes, which then returns a map with those postcodes represented on the map. The company can only accept GET requests. Their server accepts very long urls, because my very long test example works fine with wget from the shell, and even if the GET request is posted as a URL in Mozilla / Netscrape.

I can't give an example because it would break data protection law, but the get requests will be bigger than 1K. Note that the request will work with LWP if the request is a lot smaller. I'm restricted to using Perl 5.6.1 on RedHat 8. LWP is 5.6.9 I believe.

Cheers

In reply to Re: Re: HTTP::Request GET - url length restriction? by lovelost
in thread HTTP::Request GET - url length restriction? by lovelost

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