POST with LWP

HTTP-404 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

i have this code it doesn't seem to work, or is it better to use sockets instead?

    my $ua = new LWP::UserAgent;
    my $request = new HTTP::Request;
    $request->header('Content-Type'   => 'application/x-www-form-urlen
+coded');
    $request->header('Content-Length' => length $content);
    $request->content($content);
         my $response = $ua->request($request);
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Edit: chipmunk 2001-03-22

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Re: POST with LWP by arhuman (Vicar) on Mar 22, 2001 at 14:16 UTC
Simple search would have give you some answers using : perldoc LWP:/UserAgent or HTTP::Request Super Search Cookbook Or from the lwpcook (via this Davorg's post): `use HTTP::Request::Common qw(POST); use LWP::UserAgent; $ua = new LWP::UserAgent; my $req = POST 'http://www.perl.com/cgi-bin/BugGlimpse', [ search => 'www', errors => 0 ]; print $ua->request($req)->as_string;` [download] Now to answer our question stay with the LWP beccause it's powerful AND easy !!! "Trying to be a SMART lamer" (thanx to Merlyn ;-)	[reply] [d/l]
Re: POST with LWP by merlyn (Sage) on Mar 22, 2001 at 19:38 UTC
What can I say that I haven't said about 20 times previously here. To do POST, look at "perldoc lwpcook", and in particular, you want HTTP::Request::Common. -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker	[reply]
Re: Re: POST with LWP by zenmaster (Beadle) on Mar 22, 2001 at 19:44 UTC
If it shouldn't have been said 20 times, we can exclude : "I have a column about that" ;-)	[reply]