What are you trying to accomplish? It looks like you are running JavaScript in the browser that posts to the shell script on the web server. I am going to guess that the shell script is not a CGI script. I am also going to bet that web server is not configured to run shell scripts as CGI scripts and gives the 501 error because it can't POST to them.

It is possible to have a CGI script (usually written all in Perl), that accepts a file upload and then POSTs it to another secure web server. I guess it is also possible to have a CGI script on a web server that POSTs a local file to a secure web server but I am not sure why you would want do that. If posting from a browser to the secure site is working, why do you need the script using LWP?

In reply to Re^3: Uploading files to a HTTPS server - 501 error by iburrell
in thread Uploading files to a HTTPS server - 501 error by Anonymous Monk

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