In an effort to stop my wall from getting a bigger hole in it from my head, I post this question.. In the below code, I am posting HTTPS to a server with both headers and name/value pairs. I cannot for the life of me, get the headers to go in any way shaped or form. If I try to send the headers via "$headers (using HTTP::Headers), I get the error: Not an ARRAY reference at C:/Perl/lib/HTTP/Request/Common.pm line 82. Ok, so I change it to an array using @headers, no error this time, however, the name/value pairs do not get submitted along with the post, so I get errors in the response. If I remove the @headers from the POST line, I get the correct reponse from the server, but, of course I did not send any headers. Please help!! 
#!/ActivePerl-.10/bin/perl                                 
                                                             
 use LWP 5.69;                                                    
 use HTTP::Request::Common qw( POST );                            
 use HTTP::Headers;                                               
 use HTTP::Response;                                              
                                                      
                                                                 
 my $submit_values  =  {                                          
 #name/value pairs here                                               
+       
 };                                                                   
+                           
                                                                      
+                            
 my $headers = HTTP::Headers->new(                                    
+                            
   'Timeout' => '30',                                                 
+                      
 );                                                                   
+                            
 my @headers = (                                                      
+                            
   'Timeout','30',                                                    
+                      
 );                                                                   
+                            

 my $ua     = LWP::UserAgent->new( protocols_allowed => ['https'] );  
+                        
 my $r      = POST( 'https://someserver.com',@headers,$submit_values);
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 my $myresponse  = $ua->request( $r );   
                                                          
 $apiresponse = $myresponse->content ;        
                                             
 print $apiresponse;                          
                                             
exit;

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In reply to LWP: POST with headers by tbbatccc

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