Hi folks:

 I read through the API examples for insertRecords.  I am attempting to insert a record into the Leads.  I followed the examples, and yet no matter which variant I tried, I always received an error:

 <response><error><code>4600</code><message>Unable to process your request. Please verify if the name and value is appropriate for the "xmlData" parameter.</message></error></response>

The code I wrote is very simple:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use v5.14;

use strict;

use warnings FATAL => 'all';

use LWP::UserAgent; 

use Data::Dumper;

my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new(ssl_opts => { verify_hostname => 0 });

my $zoho_auth_token =  'Insert_Your_API_Key_Here'; # replace with your API key

my $xml = <<'EOT';

<Leads>

<row no="1">

<FL val="Lead Source">Web Download</FL>

<FL val="Company">scalable</FL>

<FL val="First Name">test1</FL>

<FL val="Last Name">test1</FL>

<FL val="Email"> test1@test1.com</FL>

<FL val="Title">test2</FL>

<FL val="Phone">1234567890</FL>

</row>

</Leads>

EOT

my $url;

$url = sprintf 'https://crm.zoho.com/crm/private/xml/Leads/insertRecords?authtoken=%s&scope=crmapi&newFormat=1&duplicateCheck=1',

 $zoho_auth_token;

my $result = $ua->post($url , xmlData => $xml);

printf "result = %s\n ",$result->content;

I have tried altering the URL to include xmlData=... directly on it.  I've tried creating multipart form submission.  I've used numerous alternative mechanisms of constructing the call.  But no matter what I do, I always get the 4600 error message.

So I tried my authtoken with a hand written browser based request url:

https://crm.zoho.com/crm/private/xml/Leads/getMyRecords?authtoken=Insert_Your_API_Key_Here&newFormat=1&scope=crmapi

and I get back correct xml with the right data in it.  So I know that the authtoken works.  

Are there simple examples (exactly like the above) that can demonstrate the insertion?  

Is there a JSON interface we could use instead for this?