POST to a web page with request headers in Perl

Question

I am trying to post data to a page with Perl, but the page also requires headers. How would I post the headers and send headers (cookies, user agents, etc)?

I tried using LWP::UserAgent, but I couldn't figure out how to send the headers even though I could post to the page.

One more thing about this topic. When I posted on that page and printed the response content I could see the html just fine except the numbers that were supposed to show.

Gilles Quénot · Accepted Answer · 2013-01-22 12:11:50Z

4

Try doing this :

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

my $userAgent = LWP::UserAgent->new();
my $request = HTTP::Request->new(
    POST => "http://domain.tld/path"
);
$request->content("stuff=foobar");
$request->content_type("application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
my $response = $userAgent->request($request);

if ($response->code == 200) {
    print $response->as_string;
}
else {
   die $response->status_line;
}

edited Jan 22, 2013 at 12:11

answered Jan 22, 2013 at 1:46

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Grigor Over a year ago

$userAgent is not defined. Please fix the response.

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