Hello, I am building my first perl App and got problem i cannot resolve. My app sends an http request to the server using LWP::UserAgent module I set my headers in my code, but sniffer shows something different.
The code:

my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new();

my $req= HTTP::Request->new('POST', $url);
$req->content_type('text/xml, charset=utf-8');
$req->content($postdata);
$req->header('SOAPAction' => '"loginRequest"');
$req->header('Connection' => 'keep-alive');
$req->header('User-Agent' => $App.' '.$Version);
$req->header('Accept text/xml' => 'multipart/related');

my $response = $ua->prepare_request($req);

print $req->as_string;

$response = $ua->send_request($req);

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The print instruction near the bottom shows correct headers, but wireshark exposes something different.
print output:

POST http://192.168.2.46:7191/soap
Connection: keep-alive
User-Agent: ProxyApp 1.00
Content-Type: text/xml, charset=utf-8
Accept Text/Xml: multipart/related
SOAPAction: "loginRequest"

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Wireshark output:

POST /soap HTTP/1.1
TE: deflate,gzip;q=0.3
Connection: keep-alive, TE, close
Host: 192.168.2.46:7191
User-Agent: ProxyApp 1.00
Content-Type: text/xml, charset=utf-8
Accept Text/Xml: multipart/related
SOAPAction: "loginRequest"
Content-Length: 369

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I would like to get rid of the 'TE' header, have 'Connection' value "keep-alive" only.
I am not shure if that 'Accept Text/Xml' should be 'Accept text/xml'
I am using perl v5.12.3

Thanks in advance

In reply to "Bad" http headers in LWP::UserAgent by adamm

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