'POST' method leads to "411 Length Required"

Dear libwww users,

I have spent way too many hours scratching my head on this one (ouch!).

The following code fails.

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use HTTP::Request;
use LWP::UserAgent;
my ($ua) = new LWP::UserAgent;
$ua->proxy(["http"], "http://wwwproxy. ... :3128");

my ($request);

$request->proxy_authorization_basic("naiman", "");

my ($response);

$request = new HTTP::Request 'POST', 'http://www.google.com';

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

if ($response->is_success) {
    print $response->content;
} else {
    print $response->error_as_HTML;
}
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Note, I am not using UserAgent's post() since I need to invoke
proxy_authorization_basic().

The response I get is:

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An Error Occurred 411 Length Required
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

However, it works absolutely fine if I replace 'POST' with 'GET'.

I really need to POST.

Help?

adTHANXvance!!

Aaron

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Aaron ("Aharon") Naiman
Jerusalem College of Technology--Machon Lev
[email protected]
http://math.jct.ac.il/~naiman