No point in reinventing the wheel, when it's all nicely there for the taking.POST $url, [$form_ref], [Header => Value,...] This works mostly like GET() with POST as the method, but this function also takes a second optional array or hash reference parameter ($form_ref). This argu- ment can be used to pass key/value pairs for the form content. By default we will initialize a request using the `application/x-www-form-urlencoded' content type. This means that you can emulate a HTML <form> POSTing like this: POST 'http://www.perl.org/survey.cgi', [ name => 'Gisle Aas', email => 'gisle@aas.no', gender => 'M', born => '1964', perc => '3%', ]; This will create a HTTP::Request object that looks like this: POST http://www.perl.org/survey.cgi Content-Length: 66 Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded name=Gisle%20Aas&email=gisle%40aas.no&gender=M&born=1964& +perc=3%25 The POST method also supports the `multi- part/form-data' content used for Form-based File Upload as specified in RFC 1867. You trigger this content format by specifying a content type of `'form-data'' as one of the request headers. If one of the values in the $form_ref is an array reference, then it is treated as a file part specification with the following interpretation: [ $file, $filename, Header => Value... ] The first value in the array ($file) is the name of a file to open. This file will be read and its content placed in the request. The routine will croak if the file can't be opened. Use an `undef' as $file value if you want to specify the content directly. The $filename is the filename to report in the request. If this value is undefined, then the basename of the $file will be used. You can specify an empty string as $filename if you don't want any filename in the request. Sending my ~/.profile to the survey used as example above can be achieved by this: POST 'http://www.perl.org/survey.cgi', Content_Type => 'form-data', Content => [ name => 'Gisle Aas', email => 'gisle@aas.no', gender => 'M', born => '1964', init => ["$ENV{HOME}/.profile"], ] This will create a HTTP::Request object that almost looks this (the boundary and the content of your ~/.profile is likely to be different): POST http://www.perl.org/survey.cgi Content-Length: 388 Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary="6G+f" --6G+f Content-Disposition: form-data; name="name" Gisle Aas --6G+f Content-Disposition: form-data; name="email" gisle@aas.no --6G+f Content-Disposition: form-data; name="gender" M --6G+f Content-Disposition: form-data; name="born" 1964 --6G+f Content-Disposition: form-data; name="init"; filename=".p +rofile" Content-Type: text/plain PATH=/local/perl/bin:$PATH export PATH --6G+f--
-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker
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