I'm using the Live HTTP Headers extension on Firefox to figure out what is being sent in a javascript page. I have narrowed the headers down, and am now using the Live HTTP Replay part of the Headers extension. Here's what's in Replay:

POST: http://scores.covers.com/ajax/SportsDirect.Controls.LiveScoresCo
+ntrols.Scoreboard,SportsDirect.Controls.LiveScoresControls.ashx?_meth
+od=UpdateScoreboard&_session=no
Host: scores.covers.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2) 
+Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.
+8
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 115
Connection: keep-alive
Referer: http://scores.covers.com/basketball-scores-matchups.aspx?t=0
Content-Length: 167
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Cookie: WT_FPC=id=2a36d4f9a39ac80f0481267122335646:lv=1268419213631:ss
+=1268419204254; __utma=75780999.682598437.1267111536.1268372315.12684
+08405.31; __utmz=75780999.1268372315.30.7.utmcsr=contests.covers.com|
+utmccn=(referral)|utmcmd=referral|utmcct=/handicapping/experts/NBA-te
+ams.aspx; CoversSignupReferrer=http://www.covers.com/index.aspx?t=0; 
+__utmc=75780999; ASP.NET_SessionId=5crxiiz4qrrvd445mkxtxxum; __utmb=7
+5780999.4.10.1268408405; LastDayViewed_9=2009-2010.2010.3.2; RefreshS
+cores=12-2-2010-1268408433293
Pragma: no-cache
Cache-Control: no-cache

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And here's the POST content:

LeagueID=9\r\n
GameDate=3-2-2010\r\n
Season=2009-2010\r\n
Refresh=true\r\n
LastUpdateTime=01-01-1900\r\n
type=Matchups\r\n
RefreshStartTime=12-2-2010-1268408433293\r\n
Week=\r\n
conferenceID=

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If I click the replay button, it brings up the data I need perfectly. So I've tried to copy this into a perl script, but I can't get it to work. Here is what I have:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;

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

my %fields = (
          "LeagueID" => "9\r\n",
          "GameDate" => "3-2-2010\r\n",
          "Season" => "2009-2010\r\n",
          "Refresh" => "false\r\n",
          "LastUpdateTime" => "01-01-1900\r\n",
          "type" => "Matchups\r\n",
          "RefreshStartTime" => "11-2-2010-1268372427240\r\n",
          "Week" => "\r\n",
          "conferenceID" => "",
          );
my $robot = LWP::UserAgent->new;
my $response = $robot->request(POST 'http://scores.covers.com/ajax/Spo
+rtsDirect.Controls.LiveScoresControls.Scoreboard,SportsDirect.Control
+s.LiveScoresControls.ashx?_method=UpdateScoreboard&_session=no', \%fi
+elds);
print $response->as_string;

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This isn't working. It spits out the following:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Cache-Control: private
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:04:06 GMT
Content-Length: 309
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Expires: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:04:06 GMT
Client-Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:04:10 GMT
Client-Peer: 208.68.72.130:80
Client-Response-Num: 1
X-AspNet-Version: 2.0.50727
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET

new Object();r.error = new ajax_error('System.FormatException','Input 
+string was not in a correct format.\r\nCould not retreive parameters 
+from HTTP request.',0)new Object();r.error = new ajax_error('System.A
+rgumentException','Object of type \'System.DBNull\' cannot be convert
+ed to type \'System.Int32\'.',0)

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Anyone have any ideas? If it matters, I'm on a Windows machine.

In reply to Trying to Copy Live Http Replay by sstevens

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