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How to post an xml document?

I have a url that I need to post an XML document to, not sure how to proceed. Any help is appreciated.

Andy

If you have the LWP bundle installed, it comes with a program (a script, really) that is installed with names like:

/usr/local/bin/lwp-request
/usr/local/bin/POST
/usr/local/bin/GET
/usr/local/bin/HEAD

Take a look at the manpage for it

http://search.cpan.org/~gaas/libwww-perl-5.76/bin/lwp-request

This would be a way, with essentially no programming, to do this upload task.

icculus12

ASKER

Ok, I gave the POST program a try, executed the command as follows:

POST -c text/xml https://url_to_xml_parser_app_here.asp

then input the xml content and got this result:

<HTML>
<HEAD><TITLE>An Error Occurred</TITLE></HEAD>
<BODY>
<H1>An Error Occurred</H1>
501 Protocol scheme 'https' is not supported
</BODY>
</HTML>

Looks like the fact that the server is secure is causing problems with POST... Any ideas of a workaround or alternative solutions available?

Thanks,
Andy

jmcg

You'll get that error if you do not have the encryption libraries installed.

Are you on Windows and using ActivePerl or are you on something else?

icculus12

ASKER

I am on a Linux server with Perl 5.6.0 - which libraries do I need? Do I need to execute any special commands or does the mere presence of the enc. library allow it to work with https?

Thanks,
Andy

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