first off, this is my first post, i scanned through the faq did some searches, and now am here.

anyway, i'm trying to access this server with http requests and it's something i've never done before.

the curl looks like this:

curl https://secondroad.harvestapp.com/account/who_am_i -H 'Accept: application/xml' -H 'Content-Type: application/xml' -u elliott.williams@secondroad.com.au:******

and i get out this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<hash>
  <user>
    <timezone>Sydney</timezone>
    <admin type="boolean">true</admin>
    <timestamp-timers type="boolean">false</timestamp-timers>
    <email>elliott.williams@secondroad.com.au</email>
    <id type="integer">111331</id>
  </user>
</hash>

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and that's perfect. i just can't figure out how to do it with a perl script. i'd like to do it without using any modules but LWP seems to be working.

thanks for the help. if i'm a complete idiot and there is a guide online for this, please direct me there, i've been messing around with this:

http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2002/08/20/perlandlwp.html?page=4

for a day with no luck.

cheers

In reply to https request i got the cURL working by elliottw

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