I'm running into an extremely frustrating situation where I'm trying to POST the contents of a very large file, but appear to be running into timeout issues. I'm working with a Google Search Appliance where the only way to get data into it is through a standard HTTP POST (other than having it crawl, of course). Here's the snippet where the actual POST is taking place: 
    # Post content to the supplied URL
    my $ua = new LWP::UserAgent;
    $ua->timeout( 3600 );
    my $response = $ua->post(
        $url,
        Content_Type => 'multipart/form-data',
        Content => [ 
            feedtype => $feedtype,
            datasource => $datasource,
            data => [
                $xmlfile,
                $filename,
                Content_Type => $mimetype
            ]
        ]
    );

    # Final error check
    throw Error::Simple( $response->message ) if( !$response->is_succe
+ss );
    print "Success";
}
catch Error::Simple with {
    my $E = shift;
    print "ERROR: ", $E->text;
}
finally {
    print "\n";
};

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In the above, $xmlfile is the actual location of the XML file being posted, while $filename is the name of the XML file itself. The file I'm trying to post is about 100MB (and sometimes even larger). Unfortunately, after a few minutes of running the script, I get the following error: 
 server closed connection without any data back

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At other times, I'm simply getting an EOF and then sudden death. I've tried everything known to me without any luck at all. Thinking that it may be a timeout issue, I set it to an hour. That didn't appear to solve the issue at all. Any help here would be enormously appreciated. Thanks, Saker

In reply to Frustrating LWP timeouts -- help! by sghani

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