Hi, monks

My co-worker wrote an API that requests me to send a chuck of XML to a specific server(i.e. http://example.com/api/action.html?xml) and then that server can execute some DB read/write accordingly.. a sample XML is shown below:

<api>
  <protocol>xml</protocol>
  <user>lihao</user>
  <key>**************</key>
  <data>
    <v1>Value 1</v1>
    <v2>Value 2</v2>
    <v3>Value 3</v3>
  </data>
</api>

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From my understanding, this is not like a typical HTTP form POST and also the XML is not in a typical SOAP format(I am not familiar with Web Service stuff though). Is there any easy way for me to use a Perl Module to send this chunk of data to that server directly??

Many thanks

lihao

In reply to Question: Send a chunk of XML to a server by lihao

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