Re^2: LWP Post Question

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Re^3: LWP Post Question by runrig (Abbot) on Jul 17, 2008 at 17:00 UTC
The form is a POST, but the site sends back a 302, and then the browser sends a GET. Notice the contents of the browser URL box after the request...it has all the parameters in the query string of the URL. Why it does it that way, I dunno. But the answer is to just send a GET from LWP in the first place.	[reply]
Re^4: LWP Post Question by drblove27 (Sexton) on Jul 18, 2008 at 00:12 UTC
So the 302 response means that it sends a Post request, but then shoots back a "get" type form. Huh... In theory though this could be done with a POST where LWP follows the "get" response if I could figure out what the right thing to pass it would be. Ok... Can anyone point to a POST tutorial that actual works? :) Most of the ones that I find from the Google no longer work... or my cut and paste skills are sub par (totally willing to believe as well)... Cheers	[reply]
Re^5: LWP Post Question by runrig (Abbot) on Jul 18, 2008 at 00:26 UTC
No, the 302 response means 'Moved Temporarily', and that's just how this site wants to respond to your post request...there is nothing wrong with your post. Why it responds that way to a post I don't know...you'd have to ask someone in charge of the site. Or maybe someone more web savvy than me can explain why a site would want to do this...maybe to make site scraping slightly more difficult.	[reply]