I'm attempting to write to a web server file from a Perl program (ActiveState 5.10) on my Windows XP laptop.

The program seems to run but the file isn't updated. So I'm working on validating the success for failure, displaying the response, understand the security issue at the server level.
Any one want to jump in and add any wisdom that would be great:
1) am I headed in the right direction? I read PUT is less used but more efficient than POST.
2) what's the best way of displaying the response and catching errors?
3) What's the Linux host permissions need to be set at?

4) Can I PUT one file to another?


Code:

use HTTP::Request;
my $request = new HTTP::Request 'PUT', 'http://mysite.com/runstats/ICD-2008.txt';
$request->header('content-length' => 26);
$request->header('content-type' => 'text/plain');
$request->content('xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx');
print $request->as_string( );
my $code;
my $msg;
my $header;
my $content;
my $r;
$r = HTTP::Response->new( $code, $msg, $header, $content );
print "\n $r \n";
my $str;
$r = HTTP::Response->parse( $str );
print "\n $r \n";


-------------Response:
PUT http://mysite.com/runstats/ICD-2008.txt
Content-Length: 26
Content-Type: text/plain
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
HTTP::Response=HASH(0x1b5d4fc)
HTTP::Response=HASH(0x1b5d63c)

In reply to HTTP::Request 'PUT' by kansaschuck

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