I'm new to Perl and apparently clueless on web work. I'm trying to do something that should be dramatically simple (IMO) but has tied me up for an entire day so it's past time to ask questions.

I need to use an HTTP get with a token to retrieve a key for further queries to a particular web site.

Get Request:
GET /MyDataService/MyDataService.asmx/Authenticate?CustomerToken=string HTTP/1.1 Host: services.hjknet.com

Get Response:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8 Content-Length: length <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <string xmlns="https://services.hjknet.com/MyDataService/">string</string>

What I'm doing right now is to following:

######################################################################
+## W
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use warnings 'all';
use LWP::Simple;
use XML::Simple;

my $url = 'http://services.hjknet.com/MyDataService/MyDataService.asmx
+/Authenticate?CustomerToken=+NotMyRealToken== HTTP/1.1';
my $xml = new XML::Simple;
my $xml_raw = get $url;
my $inc_data = ();
$inc_data = $xml->XMLin($xml_raw, SuppressEmpty => '' );

print "Inc_data: " . $inc_data . "\n";
print "Inc_data->{xmlns}: " . $inc_data->{xmlns} . "\n";
######################################################################
+##

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When I run this I get back (obfuscated...):
Inc_data: HASH(0x1ff9b88)
Inc_data->{xmlns}: https://services.hjknet.com/MyDataService/

I should be getting back a string that represents our key for other services. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Please don't hit me too hard if I'm missing something dumb. Clearly I'm new to both Perl and LWP...

Thanks!

In reply to Problem with simple LWP get request by Jaymac

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