in reply to LWP::USERAGENT - POST through basic authentication

This might help. 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use LWP::UserAgent;
    
my $ua  = LWP::UserAgent->new;
my $req = HTTP::Request->new;
$req->method("POST");
$req->uri("http://www.example.com");
$req->authorization_basic('user', 'password');
print $ua->request($req)->as_string;

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Re^2: LWP::USERAGENT - POST through basic authentication
by zantoro (Initiate) on Oct 11, 2011 at 13:51 UTC
    where do I put the $args?
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      Where do I put the $args

      You don't. In some of the Net modules, you can use a %args for options, but since this is LWP, there's a slightly different way to do that. For example, in the example that I gave you, I tried to keep it simple, step-by-step. Lets look at another way to do it.

      $req = HTTP::Request->new(POST => $self->{'baseurl'}, $args);

      First, you're missing a shebang line( #!/usr/bin/perl ) and strictures. You also need to declare your variables with my. Another problem is your use of $self->{'baseurl'}---What's that? You didn't declare $self nor $args. Putting it altogether: 
      #!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use LWP::UserAgent;

#using http://www.example.com for our $url
my $req = HTTP::Request->new(POST => 'http://www.example.com');

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      Note that the url should be absolute; also, I dropped $self->{'baseurl'} and $args because they weren't necessary and didn't do anything. Now you know where to put $args:).
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