silly mistake...see responses

For some reason I do not understand, in the following piece of code, "$r" is a hash reference. This is an incomplete new function from a .pm file. With the exact same piece of code used outside of a function in a script, "$r" would be a string (the _content from the reply hash), which is what I've expected from LWP::UserAgent up to now, and what the documentation describes. 
use LWP::UserAgent;
use HTTP::Cookies;

sub new {
    my $self = {};
    my $apiphp = "http://localhost/wiki/api.php";
    my $header = HTTP::Headers->new(Content_Type => "application/x-www
+-form-urlencoded");
    my $cjar = HTTP::Cookies->new(file => "/root/perl/mediawiki/cookie
+s/mediawiki.cookies",
        autosave => 1);
    my $client = LWP::UserAgent->new(default_headers => $header, cooki
+e_jar => $cjar)
        || die "MWUser.pm LWP::UserAgent failed!\n";
    my %login = ( 'action' => 'login',
        'format' => 'xml',
        'lgname' => 'user',
        'lgpassword' => 'pass'
    );
    my $r = $client->post($apiphp, Content=>\%login);
    while (my ($k, $v) = each (%$r)) {
        print "$k = $v\n";
    }
}

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I've been looking thru the docs for the various HTTP base classes here for a way to set this behaviour but haven't found anything yet.

I'd rather not have to bother with selecting _content from a hashref, I was quite happy with the string. Does anyone know what's up?

In reply to LWP::UserAgent returns hash ref with post [SOLVED] by halfcountplus

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