Dear monks

I am playing with the Chat module Net::XMPP and so far it is working great. I am able to send and receive instant messages. What I am trying to do now is to use the CONNECT function in order to create an account on a server from the client if the account the client is trying to connect to does not exist (provided the service provider allow account creation from client). Here I fail. Please see the code below:

Updated: to reconnect to server, just in case, as suggested by roboticus (however same error with the Execute operation)

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Net::XMPP;
use Mozilla::CA       qw( );

my ($recipient, $message) = @ARGV;

if(!($recipient) || !($message)) {
    print "Usage: $0  \n";
    exit;
}

my $hostname = '';
my $sender = '';
my $password = ';

my $connection = new Net::XMPP::Client();

print "Connecting to server. ";
my $status = $connection->Connect(
    hostname => $hostname,
    connectiontype => 'tcpip',
    tls => 1,
    port => 5222,
    ssl_ca_path => Mozilla::CA::SSL_ca_file(),
    );
die("XMPP connection failed $!") if ! defined($status);
print "Done!\n";

my @result = $connection->AuthSend(
    hostname => $hostname,
    username => $sender,
    password => $password);

#die("XMPP authentication failed") if $result[0] ne 'ok';
if ($result[0] ne 'ok'){
    print "XMPP authentication failed. Creating a new account\n";
    
    print "Connecting again to server. ";
    my $status = $connection->Connect(
        hostname => $hostname,
        connectiontype => 'tcpip',
        register=>1,
        tls => 1,
        port => 5222,
        ssl_ca_path => Mozilla::CA::SSL_ca_file(),
        );
    die("XMPP connection failed $!") if ! defined($status);
    print "Done!\n";

    print "Trying to register new account. ";
        my @result = $connection->Execute(
            hostname=>$hostname,       
            port=>5222,              
            tls=>1,               
            username=>$sender,       
            password=>$password,       
            #resource=>"new",       
            register=>1,          
            connectiontype=>'tcpip', 
            #connecttimeout=>string, 
            connectattempts=>2,   
            connectsleep=>2,      
            processtimeout=>3,
        );
}
die("Creation account failed") if $result[0] ne 'ok';

my @messages = ('first message', 'second', 'third');
foreach (@messages){
die("XMPP message failed") if ($connection->MessageSend(to => $recipie
+nt, body => $_) != 0);
sleep 3;
}
print "Message sent!\n";
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The error I get is:

There was an error in the last call to Process that you did not check 
+for and
handle.  You should always check the output of the Process call.  If i
+t was
undef then there was a fatal error that you need to check.  There is a
+n error
in your program
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