Current Perl documentation can be found at perldoc.perl.org.
Here is our local, out-dated (pre-5.6) version:
If you're submitting values using the
GET method, create a
URL and encode the form using the
query_form
method:
use LWP::Simple; use URI::URL;
my $url = url('http://www.perl.com/cgi-bin/cpan_mod'); $url->query_form(module => 'DB_File', readme => 1); $content = get($url);
If you're using the POST method, create your own user agent and encode the content appropriately.
use HTTP::Request::Common qw(POST); use LWP::UserAgent;
$ua = LWP::UserAgent->new(); my $req = POST 'http://www.perl.com/cgi-bin/cpan_mod', [ module => 'DB_File', readme => 1 ]; $content = $ua->request($req)->as_string;