Hi tdelwis77,

I think what you need to do is fork a child process to do the HTTP request, so that your callback can kill the UA but not the parent process.

I am not an expert on multiprocess programming, but the code below seems to do what you want, if I understand your need correctly. 

use strict; use warnings; use feature 'say';
use LWP::UserAgent;

my $foo = 'bar';
$SIG{'INT'} = sub {
    $foo = 'baz';
};

my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
$ua->add_handler("response_data", sub {
    if ( $foo eq 'baz' ) {
        say 'killing UA now';
        croak();
    }
    return 1;
});

my $url = 'http://ipv4.download.thinkbroadband.com/10MB.zip';
my $filename = "$0.zip";

my $forked = fork // die 'Could not fork!';
if ( $forked == 0 ) { # child
    say "In child with $$";
    my $req = HTTP::Request->new( GET => $url );
    my $res = $ua->request( $req, $filename );
    exit;
}

my $done = wait;

say "In parent: $done done";

exit;

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(Note that this "aborts the download" but will leave the partially downloaded file on disk, as written with the second arg to $ua->request.)

Hope this helps!


The way forward always starts with a minimal test.

In reply to Re: Interrupting HTTP::Request by 1nickt
in thread Interrupting HTTP::Request by tdlewis77

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