Hi Monks,

Ok, it's been a long night, so maybe I'm overlooking something obvious. I'm grabbing a webpage using LWP::UserAgent, but I want the request to use HTTP/1.0 instead of HTTP/1.1. Code:


my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new();
$ua->agent("$0/1.0".$ua->agent);
$ua->timeout(1);
my $req = HTTP::Request->new(GET => "$url");
$req->protocol('HTTP/1.0');
my $result = $ua->request($req);

[download]

But when I check the server log, the request shows up as HTTP/1.1. I used a packet sniffer to verify this. Anyone know why I can't get HTTP/1.0? I'm using perl 5.8.0 on RedHat 9.0. Going out on a limb here, but I suspect the problem is in UserAgent: if you throw a use Data::Dumper; print Dumper(%{$req}) in there just before issuing the request, you'll see that _protocol is indeed set to HTTP/1.0. Seems like UserAgent is somehow changing it back to 1.1.

Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong here?
*whimper*
help please....

In reply to LWP::UserAgent Wrongly Uses HTTP/1.1 by Anonymous Monk

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