Note that this 'expects' is fairly soft and does not go much further than
"Applications SHOULD use this field to indicate the transfer-length of the
message-body, unless this is prohibited by the rules... " with the transmission
rules (keep alive, chunked, etc) beeing the only exceptions overruling this for
POST (and related). This has always* been a messy problem.
But in general - this is a client bug (it should have been a bit more strict in
sending) - but arguably the server should (and can) be accomodating in what it
accepts. So I would try to fix both sides - starting with your own. E.g. a
simple content-length = $ENV{CONTENT_LENGTH} || 0 sort of thing :).
Thanks,
Dw.
*: 1998 http://arctic.org/~dean/apache/no-content-length/
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bjoern Hoehrmann [mailto:derhoe...@gmx.net]
> Sent: 21 April 2009 23:42
> To: Aaron Naiman
> Cc: libwww@perl.org
> Subject: Re: 'POST' method leads to "411 Length Required"
>
> * Aaron Naiman wrote:
> >$request = new HTTP::Request 'POST', 'http://www.google.com';
> >
> >$response = $ua->request($request);
>
> You are using POST but are not posting any data, and
> apparently the server ...
>
> >An Error Occurred 411 Length Required
>
> ... expects you to post some data when using POST.
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