[Omaha.pm] Re: LWP form posts

[Jay Hannah]

On Sep 8, 2004, at 12:08 PM, Michael D. Maynard wrote:
>  I've got a Perl question for you.  Don't know if you have much 
> experience with form posts through Perl or not, but I thought I would 
> give it a shot.  LWP is the standard for doing form posts with Perl.  
> However, it expects a response from the other side.  This is where I 
> am running into trouble.  I need to pass the data off to the other 
> side and let their server take over.  I am posting to an external CGI 
> that returns HTML.  I need their server to handle that rather than 
> processing it myself.  I can't redirect because I lose the 
> relationship to the data i just posted.  Is there anyway to post and 
> go without a response?

Hmm... I'm not sure I follow what you're trying to do. Are there 3 
computers in your scenario? Can you explain what computers A, B, and C 
are each supposed to each be doing? Which of the computers do you 
control w/ Perl?

With any http(s) POST action, the client needs to wait for the server 
to hang up (w/ or w/o output) to know that the POST actually reached 
the server, right?

Have you looked at WWW::Mechanize?

j