Dear Monks. I am definetly making this harder than it should be. For example, I open a file with XML already properly formatted and read it into @data. Then I simply want to push all that XML as one big stream to a specific URL. I can't get it to work. I am not sold on using LWP::UserAgent, or anything, but whatever will work. :) Here is what I am trying to do: 
my $browser = LWP::UserAgent->new;
my $url     = 'http://localhost:8180/request';
open(FILE,"output.xml");
my @data = <FILE>;
my $response = $browser->post( $url, Content => @data );
#print @data;

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When I print @data, it shows the full XML. Doing a post like this ONLY sends the very first XML tag, not all of the contents in @data. However, if I do a post like this: 

my $response = $browser->post( $url, Content => \@data);

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It sends the entire contents, but ruins all of the tags. 
%3CcontactTn%3E%3C%2FcontactTn%3E%0A&++++++++++++++%3CcontactEmail%3E%
+3C%2FcontactEmail%3E%0A=++++++++++++++%3Caddress%3E%0A&++++++++++++++
+++%3CbuildingNo%3E%3C%2F

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Please help! Thanks.

In reply to Sending XML data is simple right? by hallikpapa

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