Hi all,

I've got the following snippet that doesn't seem to work. When I run it, it fails and spits out fail 2 and fail 3. I'm afraid I can't see the problem, help? 

$contentpost =
        "id=20010131".
        "&username=$username".
        "&password=$password".
        "&subject=$subject".
        "&comments=$post".
        "&submit=Submit";

$contentpost =~ s/ /+/g;

$ua = new LWP::UserAgent;
my $req = new HTTP::Request 'POST',$formurl || print "fail 1";
$req->content_type('application/x-www-form-urlencoded') || print "fail
+ 2";
$req->content("$contentpost") || print "fail 3";
my $res = $ua->request($req) || print "fail 4";

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