Hi all,

I'm attempting to write a Perl script that can upload a file to a web server based on the following very simple file upload form (URL redacted):
<form enctype="multipart/form-data" action="http://example.com" method
+="post">
    <input type="file" size="50" name="file_0"/><br /><br />
    <input type="submit" value="Attach File(s)" name="confirm"/>
</form>

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And here's my Perl code (URL, username, and password redacted): 
use strict;
use warnings;

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

my $userAgent = LWP::UserAgent->new();
my $request = HTTP::Request->new(POST 'http://example.com', Content_Ty
+pe => 'multipart/form-data', Content => [file_0 => ['options2.txt']])
+;

$request->authorization_basic('username', 'password');
my $response = $userAgent->request($request);
print $response->error_as_HTML . "\n" if $response->is_error;

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This gives me a 400 "URL missing" error from the web server. Quite frankly, I have no idea what I'm doing wrong. I'm not a Perl noob, but I've never had occasion to use LWP::UserAgent or HTTP::Request, so I'm a noob in that sense.

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong or how I can debug?

In reply to File upload with LWP::UserAgent by PerlRob

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