if ( -f $file && $timestamp != (stat($file))[9] || 0 )

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May I ask what the function of the || 0 is?
On further interrogation, the user admits to having recently installed some pop-up blocking software (Google toolbar and "Add/Subtract Pro"), but claims that he isn't have problems with any other site. It sure looks like one or both of the pop-up blockers (perhaps by interaction) are interfering with POSTs, perhaps by rewriting content-length or content.
Well, they shouldn't, but who knows? There are a myriad of proxies out there, and since none of them have been written by Knuth, there will be a gazillion bugs in them. So, changes are that one of those bugs causes bytes to be dropped (newline vs. network line ending?).

But fantasizing about possible bugs in unknown software has absolutely nothing at all to do with Perl.

Abigail

In reply to Re: May be OT: Can ad blockers truncate POST data? by Abigail-II
in thread May be OT: Can ad blockers truncate POST data? by dws

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