I am using 5.8.8 on this box. I ended up just writing it to a file, and then reading that file into $data and doing a 
my $response = $browser->post( $url, Content => $data );

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But I am getting an error, I think may be java in the jboss log. 
14 Nov 2007 00:15:56,547 INFO  [STDOUT] REQUEST RECEIVED BY SERVLET:<m
+anager xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" >

14 Nov 2007 00:15:56,547 ERROR [STDERR] [Fatal Error] :1:69: XML docum
+ent structures must start and end within the same entity.

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Is this LWP::UserAgent creating an html tag or header screwing up the post? I am looking into that, but I just want to send ONLY what is in the file, but it's probably sending extra data?

In reply to Re^5: HTTP Post of XML data by hallikpapa
in thread HTTP Post of XML data by hallikpapa

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