When activated by a form this sub needs to login to perlmonks, post a cb message, and call another sub in itself to redisplay the form. I've found several good nodes about this and tried their methods without success. I'm so bad at this even the perlmonks module didn't help. I use scripts that do this every day but couldn't steal their mojo! My latest failure involves the method from this node. The following code does appear to contact perlmonks but doesn't post messages. 

use LWP::UserAgent;
use HTTP::Cookies;
use HTTP::Request::Common;
use CGI qw(:standard);

sub sendit{

my$message = shift;
my$ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
my$cookies = HTTP::Cookies->new;
my$perlmonks = 'http://perlmonks.org/index.pl';

my$req = POST ($perlmonks, [
    op      => 'login',
    user    => $username,
    passwd  => $password,
    node_id => '16046'
]);

my$res = $ua->request($req);

$cookies->extract_cookies($res);

$req = POST ($perlmonks, [
    op      => 'message',
    message => $message,
    node_id => '16046',
    
]);

$cookies->add_cookie_header($req);

$res = $ua->request($req);

print header;
&talk(); # reload form
}

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In reply to Login, post, reload. by epoptai

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