Re: Posting files to a secure site
cuyan@asu.edu
Wed, 17 Jan 2001 15:30:50 -0700 (MST)
What do you mean when you say " not fulfilling my needs" ? Does it actually
return something , and you don't like what you see? Or does it not return
anything other than an error msg?
cenk
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001 sdavis35@csc.com wrote:
> I need to post text files to a secure web site. All the information I have
> is the following:
>
> URL (https://some URL)
> the username
> the password
>
> I have been messing around with the following sample code that I found...
> but it doesn't seem to be fulfilling my needs since I don't know of any cgi
> script on the server side. Is there information I am missing that is
> necessary for me to post text files to this site? Can anyone point me to
> sample code that will help me?
>
>
> use LWP::Simple;
> use URI::URL;
> use HTTP::Request::Common qw(POST);
> use LWP::UserAgent;
> $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new(); #create a user agent
> #post the message to the server
> #this will activate the program that needs to run
> #in this program, reciever.pl will run on the server side
> $streamstring = "string to be passed to the server";
> my $req = POST 'http://3.212.228.149/cgi-bin/reciever.pl',[Filecontents =>$streamstring];
> $req->content_type('application/x-www-form-urlencoded');
> $req->content('match=www&errors=0');
> #content is what the server sends back after processing
> $content = $ua->request($req)->as_string;
> print $content;
>
> Thanks,
> Sammy Davis
>
>