I have just started using LWP and associated stuff, and with it reduced 800 odd lines of inherited roll-your-own socket stuff down to around twenty lines.

It was working, then I put use strict at the top and found a few potential problems. These I fixed, but managed to completely break the program.

Here's my working function: 

use LWP::UserAgent;
use HTTP::Request::Common;
use URI;


sub CreatePriorityAccount{
    my $query = shift;

    my $url = new URI();
    $url->scheme( 'http' );
    $url->host( getLotusServer() );

    $url->path_query( LOTUSPRIPATH );
    
    my $res = $ua->request(POST $url,
                           content-type  => 'form-data',
                           content       => $query,
                           authorization => "Basic " . AUTHORISATION,
                          );

    # Get the Notes DocID from the response
    if ($res->is_success) {
        my ( $DocID ) = $res->content =~ /The DocID for this event is 
+([0-9A-F]*)/;
        LOG "SUCCESS: $name, Doc ID is $DocID";
        StoreDocID( $name, $DocID );
    }
    else{
        LOG "FAILED: POST $url";
        LOG "RESPONSE: ", $res->code, ": ", $res->message;
    }
}

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Now if I put  use strict at the top it complains that bareword content is not allowed with strict subs. If I then change the offending line to 
           'content-type' => 'form-data',

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It appears to work, but the content does not get passed to the server!

I know I can put  no strict 'subs' in a block around the call, but I would rather understand what is going on here and do it properly.

Thanks for your wisdom.

2001-03-15 Edit by Corion: Removed CODE tags (or rather, their remnants) from the node title.

In reply to How do I use strict with asub( a = 'b' ) syntax? by Anonymous Monk

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