I've come across this problem with CGI.pm 3.01

  1. Set POST_MAX to 1MB
  2. Try to upload file > 1MB long
  3. CGI script hangs, generating no o/p

A bit of debugging shows that all goes well until the script tries to emit its results. After writing out its headers, it never seems to get past the final print of its HTML. The script correctly takes account of the return value of cgi_error(), and doesn't try to read the file (though CGI.pm apparently does read and discard the POST data, for some reason).

Has anyone seen this, or got a fix or explanation ? A bit of googling indicates that something similar has been seen before, but I haven't found any explanation for it.

Janitored by holli - fixed formatting

In reply to CGI.pm 3.01, POST_MAX and hanging CGI script by netspinner_ltd

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