I have a small script which runs on a number of different servers. Some of these servers do not have LWP module installed (and I cannot install it on them). I have the following eval test to determine if LWP is available... 
if (eval "require LWP::UserAgent; 1") {

    my %post = ('key' => 'value');
    my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new();

    my $content = $ua->post("http://www.mydomain/post.cgi",[%post])->a
+s_string;

    #do something with the content ...
} else {
    print "LWP not available";
}

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This works quite nicely on most servers... Most servers have LWP and the POST works fine. Some don't and they get the else message above. However, a few servers report the following error: 
Can't locate object method "post" via package "LWP::UserAgent" (perhap
+s you forgot to load "LWP::UserAgent"?) at (eval 2) line 1.

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How can I avoid this? Is the eval not a suitable way to test of LWP is available? Is there a better way to do this? Thanks so much...

In reply to Testing if machine has LWP... not working by lokiloki

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