posting multipart/form-data

[Vicki Brown]

For my current contract, I have a posthttp routine written by the lead
programmer.  It was originally written to assume the data CONTENT_TYPE was
          application/x-www-form-urlencoded
and it works fine for that.

However, there is a form I need to process that uses
          multipart/form-data
The data all comes in through STDIN and I'm gathering it up and saving it
in  $formdata and then pushing that into the content.
$doc (below) is the incoming URL (the remote CGI).


    my $ua=new LWP::UserAgent;
    my $req = new HTTP::Request 'POST', "http://$host$doc";;
#    $req->content_type('application/x-www-form-urlencoded');
    $req->content_type('multipart/form-data');
    $req->content_length($length);

    $req->content( $formdata );
    my $res = $ua->request($req);
    my $resp=$res->as_string;


I have debugging traces that print the values as

posthttp: host=10.0.0.4, port=80, length=858
posthttp: doc=/cgi-bin/WebX?[EMAIL PROTECTED]^2@.eebc880
posthttp: formdata=-----------------------------069095586212880
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="name"


-----------------------------069095586212880
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="email"


-----------------------------069095586212880
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="title"

Why did Poe use a Raven?
-----------------------------069095586212880
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="header"

Discussion of the poem, The Raven, by Poe.
-----------------------------069095586212880
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="enclosures"; filename=""


-----------------------------069095586212880
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="showauthor"

false
-----------------------------069095586212880
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="showauthor"

true
-----------------------------069095586212880--
posthttp: result=HTTP/1.1 200 OK


But the final page that comes back says "Post with no data" so the remote CGI
is not liking what I am sending it.

Suggestions? I'm pretty sure I'm probably missing something small and
stupid...
-- 
- Vicki

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