Thank you Monks for pointing out a potential flaw (I wouldn't know) the endpoints were provided by the webservice and are correct. I have managed to cobble this bit together and the data is returned complete to the script so I can only guess this is correct. However the main issue is I get a 500 error after changing the code from this
if($response->code == 200) {
print $response->as_string;



}

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to this 
if($response->code == 200) {
    my $last="";
$last = $response->as_string;
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
my $action = 'http://www.booksforeducation.com/testbed/fred.php';
my $form = {xml => $last};
my $response = $ua->post($action, $form);


}

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So I guess the above script has no effect on the 500 internal server error. I am trying to post the result to another script (a php script) on the same server

In reply to Re^2: need to post a string without user intervention by byteme
in thread need to post a string without user intervention by byteme

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