note muba <p>The line <c> my $json = quotemeta( {"auth":{"RAX-KSKEY:apiKeyCredentials":{"username":$USERNAME, "apiKey":$API_KEY}}} ); </c> makes no sense. The character <c>:</c> is only part of the Perl syntax in rather specific places, and this isn't one of them. I get a syntax error message for this line.</p> <p>The Perl equivalent of a JSON map is called a hash. Traditionally we use <c>=></c> to separate keys from their values, not <c>:</c>.</p> <c> my $json = quotemeta( {"auth" => {"RAX-KSKEY:apiKeyCredentials" => {"username" => $USERNAME, "apiKey" => $API_KEY}}} ); </c> <p>But even that would make little sense. That line would make the data structure, return a reference to it, try to quotemeta that reference, and store that in $json. So $json would end up being something like <c>"HASH\(0x33c218\)"</c>. You don't need quotemeta here &mdash; you only need quotemeta when you're about to use a string inside a regular expressions and you're afraid that your string might have regex meta characters while you actually want to match them literally. What you <i>do</i> need is a real JSON module, like the good monks before me already suggested.</p> 1015856 1015856