Actually, you should do a use bytes before you calculate
the length. Otherwise, unicode strings will get the number
of characters, not bytes, and send the wrong length.
--- Tim Cheadle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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)
>
>
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