Problem with HTTP::Request

gjwilson21 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

When i create a request with the following line:

$req=POST 'https://www.abc.com/fileUpload.aspx', Content_Type=>'multip
+art/form_data', Content => [__VIEWSTATE=>'dDwtMjRrKEnBI=',
aa=>'I',
file1=>['ABCD.DAT']]

$req->as_string;
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and print the request, Iam not getting the content of the file. Instead the output is something like

POST https://www.abcd.com/fileUpload.aspx
Content-Length: 411
Content-Type: multipart/form_data

VIEWSTATE=dDwtMjRrKEnBI%3D&aa=I&file1=ABCD.DAT
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Re: Problem with HTTP::Request by Corion (Patriarch) on Jul 24, 2007 at 06:04 UTC
Creating the request is not enough. You need to send it to a server too. See LWP::UserAgent. Also of interest might be WWW::Mechanize.	[reply]
Re^2: Problem with HTTP::Request by gjwilson21 (Acolyte) on Jul 24, 2007 at 06:55 UTC
Since the server is throwing an error with the content, i printed the content and the content didn't contain any file. Thats why.	[reply]
Re^3: Problem with HTTP::Request by Anonymous Monk on Jul 24, 2007 at 09:16 UTC
Try this `echo >test.txt perl - use HTTP::Request::Common; $a = POST qw[http://test/ Content_type form-data], content => [ qw,a b c d,, file =>['test.txt']]; die $a->as_string __END__` [download]	[reply] [d/l]