I've been programming in PERL now for quiet a while but I've come across a situation that I havent encounted before and I am ripping my hair out trying to figure out how to do... I have a form on a webpage that sends data to my PERL script when you hit the submit button - nothing unusual there, but then within my PERL script I need it to post off variables to another webpage and load that page up (basicly simulating a form post within PERL). I've tried various different ways that people have shown me and all of them dont work! It cant be that hard can it?

Do I need to use sockets? or can it just be accomplished with just a simple HTTP header? ... also I want to steer clear of the CGI and LWP modules... just raw code cause its the best!... thanks in advance...

Am I heading in the right direction doing it this way? I don't know...

use IO::Socket;

$host="localhost";
$path="/cgi-bin/display_passed_args.pl";
$str="test1=foo&test2=bar";

$sock = IO::Socket::INET->new("$host:80");
$sock->autoflush();
print $sock "POST $path  HTTP/1.0\n";
print $sock "Host: $host\n";
print $sock "Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded\n";
print $sock "Content-length: ".length($str)."\n";
print $sock "Connection: close\n\n";
print $sock $str;

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In reply to Simulating Form Posts from within PERL by flappy

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