Your first instinct was correct. You should let POST do the work of creating your content for you. The mistake is in the way you specify your request to the POST method of Http::Request::Common. From your code, it looks like it should be: 
  $request = POST 'http://www.server.com/process.create', [ loc => 'AL
+', cat => '4' ];
  ...

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You specify not the server name, but the full request URL as the first parameter to POST. The second parameter to POST is an anonymous array of the the request's key => value pairs. You should also know that Perl will allow barewords on the left side of the => operator, but barewords don't permit characters like "." and "/". 
   MeowChow                                   
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In reply to Re: LWP & POST by MeowChow
in thread LWP & POST by Anonymous Monk

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