Dominic Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm trying to upload a file to a server, but it's failing because the
> content-length is incorrect. This is because the content is UTF-8 and
> length() is reporting characters, not bytes.
You are not supposed to provide content with chars outside the 0..255
range.
> Attached is a small test to demonstrate this.
>
> I would imagine that somewhere in the bowels of HTTP::Request,
> bytes::length() needs to be used instead of the default
> CORE::length(), which reports characters. Or maybe call
> decode('utf8', $content). But that would involve knowing more about
> the character sets in use...
Assuming you mean encode here. This would be wrong. I don't think
LWP should assume any charset for you or expose perl's internal
representation. Just call encode() on the content you pass to LWP
yourself.
Regards,
Gisle
