doing a POST request with LWP

Matija Grabnar (Matija.Grabnar@arnes.si)
Mon, 22 Mar 1999 18:26:07 +0100 

Apologies if this is a FAQ - I did read through the manuals, but I didn't
find anything that would help me.

How do I use LWP to make a POST request, i.e. simulate the request sent
by a browser to get a response from a form?

I tried doing a 
 my $request = new HTTP::Request('POST', 'http://rzenik.arnes.si/cgi-bin/test.c
gi?param=one&param2=two');

But my query was ignored. I think the culprit is the following line 
in LWP/Protocol/http.pm

 my $buf = $request_line . $h->as_string($CRLF) . $CRLF;

which constructs the request. From what I sniffed on my ethernet port
when doing requests from the browser, the POST query should be appended 
after the last CRLF, but it isn't - the buffer is written in the next step.
A browser first sends the headers (which don't contain the query) then 
the double CRLF, then the query itself.

So, what do I have to do to send my query string? 
(If the answer is "patch LWP", tell me and I'll do it :-)
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Matija.Grabnar@arnes.si