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koscher has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I'm using LWP to do a multi-part POST. In the body section associated with the file the header Content-Type header is set to Text/Plain.
How do I set it to something else (like Application/XML)?
example:

Content-Disposition: form-data; name="fname"; filename="deposit1.xml"
Content-Length: 1076
Content-Type: text/plain
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
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Re: Setting Content-Type when POSTing with LWP
by Moonie (Friar) on Aug 29, 2002 at 21:51 UTC
    See lwpcookbook for reference. An example: 
     my $req = HTTP::Request->new(POST => 'http://www.perl.com/cgi-bin/Bug
+Glimpse');
  $req->content_type('application/x-www-form-urlencoded');
  $req->content('match=www&errors=0');

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Re: Setting Content-Type when POSTing with LWP
by larryk (Friar) on Aug 29, 2002 at 21:59 UTC
    This is untested and I have to rush off but I hope it works 
    #!perl
use strict;
use warnings;

use LWP::UserAgent;
use HTTP::Headers;
use HTTP::Request;

my $content = join '', <DATA>;

my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new();

my $h = HTTP::Headers->new(
    Content_Disposition => 'form-data; name="fname"; filename="deposit
+1.xml"',
    Content_Length      => length($content),
    Content_Type        => 'text/xml'
);

my $r = HTTP::Request->new('POST', 'http://search.cpan.org/', $h, $con
+tent);

my $response = $ua->request($r);

__DATA__
<?xml version="1.0"?>
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