Hi

I've inherited a script that uses curl to connect over HTTPS and get the result of a CGI. This script has worked fine for a long time, but it's suddenly started hanging. I've isolated it to:

open(CURL, qq[curl -s -N "https://www.foo.com/cgi-bin/do.cgi" |]) 
    or die;
# the script hangs here
my $read = sysread(CURL, $line, 1);
close(CURL);

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When I run the corresponding curl command in my shell, it prints out the content I want, but doesn't finish - the CGI doesn't seem to return an EOF that curl recognises. The original script had 'my @lines = <CURL>', which also hung. However, I thought I could circumvent this by using sysread and just reading enough until I have what I want, but I still have the problem.

Thanks in advance
Alex

In reply to Hanging when reading from pipe-y open by ViceRaid

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