Means to input to a POST using libwww

Linda Nettleton A211 (nettleto@fsl.noaa.gov)
Sat, 24 Feb 1996 11:12:57 -0700 (MST) 

Hello,

	When I was using the perl 4 libwww routines, I devised
a script which took an input file and used it as direct input
to a POST command.  Here follows an example script:

POST -c application/x-www-form-urlencoded http://mss.fsl.noaa.gov:8888/cgi-bin/
dsrsReqstParms.cgi < dsrs.in 

dsrs.in was a TEXT file containing:

ErrorNotice=nettleto@fsl.noaa.gov&
MessageAddress=nettleto@fsl.noaa.gov&
InterfaceFlag=CLI&
TheRequest=DSRSstore&
SourcePath=/public/sao/mssform/9430112000100o+
/public/1994_10/sao/mssform/9430113000100o+
/public/1994_10/sao/mssform/9430114000100o&
DestinationPath=/FRD/sao/mssform&
TheUser=nettleto&
TheHost=opus.fsl.noaa.gov&


If I didn't want to have the response from the WEB server, I simply
directed the output to > /dev/null.


	With the new libwww for perl 5, I am no longer able to use
the < sign to direct input to the routine.  I was able to get
the results I desired by using the command line approach.  Here
follows the transcript of that process:

mortimer:/home/mortimer/nettleto/perl> POST -c application/x-www-form-urlencoded http://mss.fsl.noaa.gov:8888/cgi-bin/dsrsReqstParms.cgi
Please enter content (application/x-www-form-urlencoded) to be POSTed:
ErrorNotice=nettleto@fsl.noaa.gov&
MessageAddress=nettleto@fsl.noaa.gov&
InterfaceFlag=CLI&
TheRequest=DSRSstore&
SourcePath=/public/sao/mssform/9430112000100o+
/public/1994_10/sao/mssform/9430113000100o+
/public/1994_10/sao/mssform/9430114000100o&
DestinationPath=/FRD/sao/mssform&
TheUser=nettleto&
TheHost=opus.fsl.noaa.gov&
^d


This is of no use to me since I need to be able to run this in batch.
How does one accomplish that with the new libraries?

	Linda Nettleton


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