Re: Mysterious LWP status 500 Line too long

I'm not convinced making the limit bigger would help. Net::HTTP thinks a *header* line is longer than 4k. The switch shouldn't be returning a header line that big. Is it really doing that?

I think the following hack would make the limit bigger:

%OPTS = @LWP::Protocol::http::EXTRA_SOCK_OPTS;
$OPTS{MaxLineLength} = ...;
@LWP::Protocol::http::EXTRA_SOCK_OPTS = %OPTS;
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Re^2: Mysterious LWP status 500 Line too long by dpmott (Scribe) on Jul 28, 2005 at 17:55 UTC
Hey, thanks, that works! At least, when I specify a limit of 64k. I took a closer look at the response from the switch. The beginning of it looks like this: `<HTML><BODY BGCOLOR=#ffffff>` [download] Note that there are no <HEAD> tags in there. Would that be causing this problem? Thanks, -dpmott Update: There is no HTTP Header in the response, either. The response from the switch begins with the <HTML> tag	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Mysterious LWP status 500 Line too long by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jul 28, 2005 at 17:58 UTC
The problem is with the header of the HTTP request. That's the body. An HTTP response looks like: `HTTP/1.0 200 OK<CR><LF> Header: Value<CR><LF> Header: Value<CR><LF> Header: Value<CR><LF> <CR><LF> body` [download] The blank line seperates the header from the body. By the way, I think 0 means no limit.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: Mysterious LWP status 500 Line too long by dpmott (Scribe) on Jul 28, 2005 at 18:57 UTC
I've double-checked the TCP/IP packets coming from the switch. There are no HTTP headers. The content from the switch starts with the <HTML> tag. So, it looks like LWP is expecting a header that never comes, and fills up its buffer with the HTML content. Is there a way that I can tell LWP to not expect the header?	[reply]
Re^5: Mysterious LWP status 500 Line too long by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jul 28, 2005 at 19:14 UTC


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