I have a web service i am submitting an xml file (using nettool currently to submit it). Having a hard time sending the request via perl HTTP. I am thinking that i might need to serialize the xml file, then send it over however a bit amiss at how to accomplish this. This is what i have so far, and based this on a simple POST script that does work. The nettool request using the url in the script and the contents of the test.xml file works perfect and i get a 200 response with data. I keep getting 400 bad request here...

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use FileHandle;
use LWP::UserAgent;
use HTTP::Request;

sub printFile($)
        {
        my $fileHandle = $_[0];
        while (<$fileHandle>)
        {
        my $line = $_;
        chomp($line);
        print "$line\n";
        }
        }

my $fh = new FileHandle;
$fh->open("</home/test.xml") or die "Could not open file\n";
printFile($fh);
$fh->close(); # automatically closes file;

my $userAgent = LWP::UserAgent->new();
my $request = HTTP::Request->new(POST => 'http://test.com:7080/b2b?msg
+Fmt=testRequest');
$request->header('Host' => "test.com:7080");
$request->content($fh);
$request->content_type("text/xml; charset=utf-8");
my $response = $userAgent->request($request);

if($response->code == 200) {
        print $response->as_string;
}
else {
        print $response->error_as_HTML;
}

#
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