Hi,

I am trying to use HTTP::Request::Common;
Its working fine but I want to make the code more generic ... I am POSTing a request with: 

my $req = POST $url, Content_Type => 'form-data',
            Content        => [
                    loaderid   => $loaderid,
                    zipped     => $zipped,
                    user       => $user,
                    filetype   => $filetype,
                    file       => [ $fname ]
                ];

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What I want to do is have variable number of attributes that I read from a config file such as:

####################
#  Load Settings  #
####################
loaderid = 382
user = Andy 
zipped = 1 # 0 Not Zipped, 1 Zipped, 2 Gzipped- do not use -1
filetype = 1 # 1 = Measurements, 2 = Outage, 3 = Rotation

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Using the following code...

    while (<CONFIG>) {
        chomp;                  # no newline
        s/#.*//;                # no comments
        s/^\s+//;               # no leading white
        s/\s+$//;               # no trailing white
        next unless length;     # anything left?
        my ($var, $value) = split(/\s*=\s*/, $_, 2);
             $preferences{$var} = $value;
    }

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The problem is that I don't know how to allocate variable attibutes in the Content part of the request... really its a formtting/syntax problem more than anything else.

Essentially, I want changes in the config file to be reflected in the POST ... if that makes sense!!!

All assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Andy

In reply to Variable HTTP request. by saab99e

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