On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Thurn, Martin (Intranet) wrote: > Is this a bug in LWP, or is yahoo.com sending non-comforming HTTP? > Yahoo is trying to redirect this URL to another, but LWP does not recognize the >format: > > # GET 'http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=%22Yoda+stories%22' > Illegal hexadecimal digit 'T' ignored at >/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Net/HTTP/Methods.pm line 428.
yahoo.com is sending non-conforming HTTP by labelling the response as chunked but then omitting the chunk-size. You could work around yahoo.com's problem in your script by using HTTP/1.0 instead of HTTP/1.1 since then you won't get yahoo.com's incorrect chunked encoding. -- Liam Quinn
