why doesn't this work? I am trying to upload a file to a webserver without actually doing it through a broweser but through a perl script. Here's the code; 

use CGI;

use HTTP::Request::Common;
use LWP;
$ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;

my $res= $ua->request(POST 'http://server.com/cgi-bin/upload.cgi',
                [description  => 'a description', 
                 filetoupload => 'c:/test.dat' ]);

if ($res->is_success) {print "success\n";} 
  else {print "failed $!\n";}

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I always get "failed invalid argument". Any help much appreciated. by the way sqware brackets are included but don't show in the code above.

2001-12-06 Edit by Corion : Added Code tags

In reply to http upload simulating browser by marauder

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