my $req = POST( "http://myurl/public_html/cgi-bin/json-addition.cgi", Content_Type => 'application/json', Content => $json->encode($data), ); my $response = $ua->request($req); $response->is_success or die($response->status_line); my $result = $json->decode($response->decoded_content); print $result->{c}, "\n";