By the way, I'll be giving a tutorial about LWP at the The Perl Conference
in July in San Diego; the kind of stuff you ask about is exactly what the
talk is about: it's an introduction to LWP.
I'm also working on a book for O'Reilly about things like this, too. It
should be out sometime before the Robot Holocaust.
At 09:19 PM 2001-05-22 -0400, David Kuo wrote:
>[...]But how about the "POST" method? How do I send out the
>arguments to the web server? If the syntax "$request = new
>HTTP::Request('POST' => $url, [name1 => value1, name2
> => value2, ...,]);" correct? [...]
I call using HTTP::Request->new the bad old way. (Well, it's not exactly
bad, it's just not especially convenient for most purposes.)
The /good/ old way is:
use LWP;
my $browser = LWP::UserAgent->new();
use HTTP::Request::Common; # exports POST(...) et al
my $request = POST($url, [name1 => value1, name2 => value2, ...,]);
my $response = $browser->request($request);
And the good /new/ way is:
use LWP 5.5394; # a devel version, by the way
my $browser = LWP::UserAgent->new();
my $response = $browser->post($url,
[name1 => value1, name2 => value2, ...,],
);
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