Hi Alan,
Your codes looks alright to me.
Since you're trying to access a secured HTTPS site, you need to have SSLeay
module installed first. I was wondering if there is the case? The msg:
>HTTP/1.1 405 Method Not Allowed
seems to suggesting that HTTPS is not supported yet in your machine.
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Alan Olegario [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Friday, 13 June 2003 12:53 AM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Need help...
>
>
>Hello.
>
>I am extremely new to LWP, and I need some help. I've been
>looking around and haven't found any useful examples of doing
>POSTs to sites. Here's my code:
>
>--------------------------
>#!/usr/local/bin/perl
>use LWP::UserAgent;
>$ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
>
>my $req = HTTP::Request->new(POST => 'https://www.somesite.com');
>$req->content_type('application/x-www-form-urlencoded');
>$req->content('class=inputbox&name=USER&size=10&AUTOCOMPLETE=OFF&va
lue=someuser');
>$req->content('class=inputbox&type=PASSWORD&name=PASSWORD&size=10&A
UTOCOMPLETE=OFF&value=somepass');
>
>my $res = $ua->request($req);
>print $res->as_string;
>--------------------------
>And here's my output:
>==========================
>HTTP/1.1 405 Method Not Allowed
>Connection: close
>Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 13:52:29 GMT
>Server: Netscape-Enterprise/4.1
>Allow: HEAD, GET, PUT, POST, DELETE, TRACE, OPTIONS, MOVE, INDEX,
>MKDIR, RMDIR
>Content-Length: 124
>Content-Type: text/html
>Client-Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 13:52:30 GMT
>Client-Peer: 216.74.155.198:443
>Client-SSL-Cert-Issuer: /O=VeriSign Trust Network/OU=VeriSign,
>Inc./OU=VeriSign International Server CA - Class
>3/OU=www.verisign.com/CPS Incorp.by Ref. LIABILITY LTD.(c)97 VeriSign
>Client-SSL-Cert-Subject: /C=US/ST=New York/L=New
>York/O=Somecompany/OU=Infrastructure/OU=Terms of use at
>www.verisign.com/rpa (c)00/CN=www.somesite.com
>Client-SSL-Cipher:
>EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA
>Client-SSL-Warning: Peer certificate not verified
>Title: Method Not Allowed
>
><HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Method Not Allowed</TITLE></HEAD>
><BODY><H1>Method Not Allowed</H1>
>An error has occurred.
></BODY></HTML>
>
>Thanks in advance for the help.
>
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