First, it's Perl - not PERL. :) Second, LWP is GOOOOOD!

Moving on, consider the following CGI script, which i named simple.cgi: 

#!/usr/bin/perl -Tw

use strict;
use CGI qw(:standard);

print header;

if (param('foo')) {
   print "you sent ", param('foo');
}
else {
   print start_html,start_form,textfield('foo'),
      submit,end_form,end_html,
   ;
}

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The following LWP script will talk to it: 
use strict;

use LWP;
use HTTP::Request::Common;

my $url      = 'http://localhost/cgi-bin/simple.cgi';
my $ua       = LWP::UserAgent->new;
my $request  = POST($url, Content => [foo=>'hello world']);
my $response = $ua->request($request);

print $response->content, "\n";

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Now, was that so bad? CGI.pm and LWP.pm are your friends. :) Use them! Just to show that i am a nice guy, here is an example that uses IO::Socket and GET to do roughly the same thing (oh, you were forgetting to read the results back, by the way): 
use strict;
use IO::Socket qw(:DEFAULT :crlf);

$/ = CRLF . CRLF;

my $sock = IO::Socket::INET->new(
   Proto    => 'tcp',
   PeerAddr => 'localhost',
   PeerPort => 'http(80)',
);

print $sock "GET /cgi-bin/simple.cgi?foo=hello%20world",$/;

my $header = <$sock>;
print $header;

my $data;
print $data while read($sock,$data,1024) > 0;

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Much uglier in my opinion, and definitely less robust. If you plan to stick with raw sockets, then i suggest you buy and read Network Programming with Perl. Good luck! :)

jeffa

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In reply to (jeffa) Re: Simulating Form Posts from within Perl by jeffa
in thread Simulating Form Posts from within PERL by flappy

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