This is more of a basic html/http question but it involves perl also. I am trying to get the contents of a web page that uses the POST method along with a few header/value pairs. When I put the following URL into my browser the resulting page is empty. I am not sure what I am doing wrong. My URL is based on the HTML form that I found in the source code. What am I missing? So this is how I am submitting my info:

http://x.x.x.x/cgi-bin/rgcgi?type=DisplayRoute&table=IPtoPSTNRoute&phonenumbermatch=A1212

This is what I see in an ethereal trace

Line-based text data: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

type=DisplayRoute$table=IPtoPSTNRoute&phonenumbermatch=A1212

Here is the html form:


Display IPtoPSTNRoute

<form action="rgcgi?action=IPtoPSTNRoute" method="post"> <input type="hidden" name="type" value="DisplayRoute"> <input type="hidden" name="table" value="IPtoPSTNRoute">Phonenumber Match: <input type="text" name="phonenumbermatch">   <input type="submit" value="Display Routes"></form>
This is what my code looks like 
#!/usr/bin/perl
require LWP::UserAgent;
use HTTP::Request::Common;

 my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
 $ua->timeout(10);
 $ua->env_proxy;
 $response = $ua->request(POST 'http://x.x.x.x/cgi-bin/rgcgi',
        [  type => DisplayRoute,
           table => IPtoPSTNRoute,
           phonenumbermatch => 'A1212' ]);

 if ($response->is_success) {
     print $response->content;  # or whatever
 }
 else {
     die $response->status_line;
 }

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In reply to using LWP to POST multiple name/value pairs by atistler

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