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Re: post request with content length 0: msg#00002

Subject: Re: post request with content length 0
Le mercredi 25 avril 2007 à 10:54, Ulrich Wisser écrivait:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a small script trying to login into a website. Of course they use 
> forms and cookies for that. Unfortunately does my code not work. If 
> tried many approaches but without success. One thing I recognized is, 
> that $ua->post() sends "Content-length: 0" header with the request. 
> Which I find quite strange. Please see my script and sample output below.
> 
> What do I do wrong?

Your call to post() looks wrong:

> my $res = $ua->post('http://search.cpan.org/search', (perl test2 
> query=>'libwww-perl',mode=>'dist'));

The manual says:

    $ua->post( $url, \%form )
    $ua->post( $url, \@form )
    $ua->post( $url, \%form, $field_name => $value, ... )

-- 
 Philippe "BooK" Bruhat

 There is no greater magic than knowing exactly who and what you are.
                                                 (Moral from Groo #2 (Image))



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