I am trying to post some basic xml via https post and I am having minor trouble. First I tried using LWP::UserAgent and it kept giving me errors when I tried to install the module so I gave up on that method. I then found a little tutorial on how to do with with curl:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use URI::Escape;
use IPC::Open2;


my $post_url = "https://www.domain.com/cgi-bin/AcceptXML";

my $curl = "/usr/local/bin/curl";
my $curl_opt = "-H 'Content-Type: text/xml'";

my $basic_auth = "";

$post_url =~ s|://|://$basic_auth\@| if $basic_auth;

open2(*README, *WRITEME, "$curl $curl_opt -d \@- $post_url 2>/dev/null
+");

my $xml_out = qq[<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<SomeXml>
 <SomeData>1234</SomeData>
 <SomeOtherData>x=25%</SomeOtherData>
 <MoreData id="445A">Pink Elephants</MoreData>
</SomeXml>
];

print WRITEME &uri_escape($xml_out);

close WRITEME;

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I run it with all my iformation and I dont get any kind of response back so I dont know if it went through or not. How can I get the response and just print it out to the console? It looks like it might be writting the reponse somewhere, just not sure where. Thanks.

In reply to HTTPS post with curl (RESOLVED) by bobdole

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