I'm trying to use POE::Component::Client::HTTP for asynchronous POST
requests, and it has a fatal bug that breaks such requests. As per the
HTTP 1.0 spec, all POSTs are required to have a "Content-Length" header
specifying the number of octets in the content of the request. The POE
component does not automatically set this header if not previously
present.
This results in servers not knowing when the request is complete.
If you add the Content-Length header, things work great.
Tim
Here is a simple patch:
--- HTTP.pm.old 2005-05-04 16:31:57.600035522 -0400
+++ HTTP.pm 2005-05-04 16:32:02.713339216 -0400
@@ -344,15 +344,6 @@
);
}
- # Add a Content-Length header for POSTs
- if (defined $http_request->method() and $http_request->method() eq
'POST') {
- if (defined $http_request->content()) {
- $http_request->header(
- 'Content-Length' => length($http_request->content())
- );
- }
- }
-
# Create a progress postback if requested.
my $progress_postback;
$progress_postback = $sender->postback($progress_event, $http_request,
$tag)
