I need a help with Posting a form with following input 
<input name="/process.create" value="loc=AL&cat=4">

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I have tried 2 different ways but they both cause an error. 
$request = POST 'http://www.server.com', Content => [ /process.create 
+=> 'loc=AL&cat=4' ];
my $response = $ua->request($request);

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This causes a syntax error because of the "/" or "." in the field name. 
$contentdata = '/process.create=loc=AL&cat=4';
$encoded = uri_escape($contentdata);
$request = new HTTP::Request('POST', 'www.server.com');
$request->content_type('application/x-www-form-urlencoded');
$request->content($encoded);
my $response = $ua->request($request);

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This doesn't cause any errors but when the server receives the data, it treats "/process.create" and "cat" as two different fields because of "&" that's in between. Is there anyway I can post this form? Thanks in advance.

In reply to LWP & POST by Anonymous Monk

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