You will have to learn one of the two. Maybe HTTP::Request::Common is enough to produce a POST request, but you will have to learn HTTP in either case anyway.

A very simplicistic approach could be to dump what curl sends over the network, and then replicate the request with LWP::UserAgent, printing that until you get the same results.

Ok, nice. How do I find out what Curl sends over the network?

Either use Wireshark or look at the Curl documentation. On a quick glance, either --verbose or --trace make Curl dump everything it sends or receives.

Again, you will have to learn Curl and HTTP in either case, so now is a good time to start with that.

As I now found out, I already said the same, even more verbose, in Re: CURL and Perl (it rhymes!). So maybe re-reading that thread helps.

Did you read the thread you linked to in the OP?

Cheers Rolf

PS: Je suis Charlie!

This is a LWP::UserAgent based solution. The code snippet is untested and definitely needs modification to insert into your code environmant.

use LWP::UserAgent;

$ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;

my $req = HTTP::Request->new(POST => "$url");  # -X
$req->header('Authorization' => "Token $token");  # -H

my $res = $ua->request($req, [ $gl_media_defaults{v_suffix} => "\@$fil
+e_to_upload"]); # -F

if ($res->is_success) {
   print $res->content;
} else {
   print $res->message;
}
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Hi pme,

Thanks for that.

Well it seemed to work (that is to say it didn't error). I won't be able to see until tomorrow if the files were uploaded or not.

The only thing that was suspicious is that the mp4 file was too quick to upload, so I imagine there was a problem.

However, it gives me something to work on and debug. Thanks very much,

Regards

Steve.

Hi Guys,

After a day of trying playing around with every option I could find, I came up with the following. The nice thing is that it has progress reporting.

Thanks for everyone's help,

Regards

Steve.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use warnings;

use WWW::Curl::Easy;

# set custom HTTP request header fields
my $url = "http://mysite.org:8098/api/resultados/";
my $token = "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";
my $filetype_to_upload="pdf";

my $file_to_upload="/path/to/file.$filetype_to_upload";
my $size = -s $file_to_upload;
open( IN, $file_to_upload ) or die("Cannot open file - $file_to_upload
+. $! \n");

my $curl = WWW::Curl::Easy->new or die $!;

# Headers.
my @request_header = ();
#push (@request_header, "Accept-Encoding: gzip");
push (@request_header, "Content-type: multipart/form-data; boundary=fr
+ontier");
push (@request_header, "Authorization: Token $token");
push (@request_header, "User-Agent: Perl interface for libcURL/7.35.0"
+);

# Options
my $retcode ;
$retcode = $curl->setopt(CURLOPT_POST, 1);
$retcode = $curl->setopt(CURLOPT_VERBOSE,0); 
$retcode = $curl->setopt(CURLOPT_HEADER(), 1);
$retcode = $curl->setopt(CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, \@request_header);
$retcode = $curl->setopt(CURLOPT_URL(), $url);
$retcode = $curl->setopt(CURLOPT_NOPROGRESS, 0);
$retcode = $curl->setopt(CURLOPT_PROGRESSFUNCTION, \&progress_callback
+);
$retcode = $curl->setopt( CURLOPT_INFILESIZE,    $size );
$retcode = $curl->setopt( CURLOPT_UPLOAD,        1 );
$retcode = $curl->setopt( CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'POST' );
$retcode = $curl->setopt(CURLOPT_TIMEOUT, 30);
$curl->setopt(CURLOPT_READDATA, \*IN);
$curl->setopt( CURLOPT_POSTFIELDSIZE_LARGE, -1 );

$retcode = $curl->perform;

if ($retcode == 0) {
    print("File upload success\n");
} else {
    print("An error happened: $retcode ".$curl->strerror($retcode)."\n
+");
}
exit;

sub progress_callback {
    my ($clientp,$dltotal,$dlnow,$ultotal,$ulnow)=@_;
    if ($ultotal) {
        print int (100 * $ulnow/$ultotal), "% Complete.\n";
    } else {
        print "0% Complete.\n";
    }
    return 0;
}
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