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Dear Monks,

I am having one hell of a time trying to get my LWP script to work with this aggravating web server using tons of javascript, jsp, and one of those awful oracle web/database solution Larry Ellison fools people into buying.

My script does this ...

    .
    .
    .
$UA->cookie_jar->add_cookie_header();
$resp = $UA->post ( $actionUrl,
        @ns_headers,
        'Content_type'    =>    'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
        'Content' => [
            <... a bunch of stuff ...>
        ]
    );
    .
    .
    .
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What that is suppose to do is create add some data to a database, but when I check the database there is nothing to be found.

When I submit the form via a browser everthing works fine, so I decided to do a tcpdump when I run my script and when I submit the form via the browser and look for differnces. And there are! When I run my script I get this tcpdump output:

POST /ditor/ditctl.do?method=save HTTP/1.1
Connection: keep-alive
Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9
+,text/plain;q=0.8;,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Charset:ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Host: somejunk.js.jps.com:8888
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20
+050512 Red Hat/1.7.8-1.1.3.1
Content-Length: 336
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Cookie: JSESSIONID=1545454aae552555a48773717374620
Cookie2: $Version="1"
Keep-Alive: 300
!pu`
!pu`
content=things&blah=balhahah&morejunk=&nonsense=xyz
!pu`
HTTP/1.1 100 Continue
Server: Oracle9iAS (9.0.3.0.0) Containers for J2EE
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 18:00:00 GMT
!pu`
!pu`
HTTP/1/1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 18:00:00 GMT
Server: Oracle9iAS (9.0.3.0.0) Containers for J2EE
Connection: Close
Content-Type: text/html
Transfer-Encoding:chunked
<EOT>
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But when I submit the form via the browser I get this output from tcpdump ...

POST /ditor/ditctl.do?method=save HTTP/1.1
Host: somejunk.js.jps.com:8888
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20
+050512 Red Hat/1.7.8-1.1.3.1
Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9
+,text/plain;q=0.8;,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset:ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Referer: http://somejunk.js.jps.com:8888/ditor/ditctl.do?stuff=stuff
Cookie: JSESSIONID=9989887adf879da987982jkd11
!pu`
!pu`
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 384
content=things&blah=balhahah&morejunk=&nonsense=xyz
!pu`
HTTP/1.1 100 Continue
Server: Oracle9iAS (9.0.3.0.0) Containers for J2EE
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 17:29:04 GMT
!pu`
!pu`
HTTP/1/1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 17:29:04 GMT
Server: Oracle9iAS (9.0.3.0.0) Containers for J2EE
Content-Location: http://somejunk.js.jps.com:8888/ditor/Some.jps
Connection: Keep-Alive
Keep-Alive: tomeout=15, max=100
Content-Type: text/html
Transfer-Encoding:chunked
    ... a bunch html ...
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What is going on after the form is submitted? What's this Content-Location header? How can I make my script do what the browser does??? Thanks!

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