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Right, after considerable research, I've finally gotten to the point where my Perl script connects to a remote server and POSTs data to it successfully. But there's a problem. The page may /look/ like the right page on the remote server, but surprise! the URL in the browser's field is that of my script. Which means that when I click on a link, if the URL is relative rather than absolute, I get a 404 error.

For example, here's http://www.elfhill.com/foo.cgi:

use HTTP::Request::Common qw( POST );
use LWP::UserAgent;

print "Content-type:text/html\n\n";

my $ua = new LWP::UserAgent;
my $req = POST 'http://perlmonks.org/index.pl',
     [ node_id => '479' ];
my $res = $ua->request($req)->content;

if ($res->is_success) {
     print $res->content;
} else {
     print $res->error_as_HTML;
}
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Now, if you try to click on any link there, elfhill.com will spit back a 404.

How do I tweak the code so that I'm /actually/ at perlmonks, rather than elfhill?

Thanks,

- Muse

In reply to LWP strikes again! by motomuse

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