Good day fellow monks,

I have experienced very weird thing yesterday. I am using both Windows and Linux and this program (below) doesn't work on both with the first URL (www.tabonline.co.za). However this URL opens fine if I use LWP or Firefox for instance... Please help! Your help will be highly appreciated.

use strict;
use POE;
use POE::Component::Client::HTTP; # WRAPPED IN POCO::CLIENT::SSLIFY
use HTTP::Request::Common qw(GET POST);

my $url = "https://www.tabonline.co.za/"; # DOESN'T WORK IN WINDOWS AN
+D LINUX - WORKS FINE IN A BROWSER AND LWP
# my $url = "https://www.helsinki.fi/"; # WORKS FINE IN THIS EXAMPLE

POE::Component::Client::HTTP->spawn
  ( Alias => 'uapar', 
    Timeout => 200,
    FollowRedirects => 2,
  );
  
          POE::Session->create
                    ( inline_states =>
                        { _start => sub {
                              my ( $kernel, $heap ) = @_[ KERNEL, HEAP
+ ];
                              my $request = HTTP::Request->new(
                                  GET => $url, []
                                );
                                $kernel->post( uapar => request => got
+_response => $request );
                          },

                          got_response => sub {
                              my ( $kernel, $heap, $request_packet, $r
+esponse_packet ) = @_[ KERNEL, HEAP, ARG0, ARG1 ];
                              my $http_request = $request_packet->[0];
                              my $http_response = $response_packet->[0
+];
                              my $response_string = $http_response->as
+_string();
                              print $response_string;
                          },
                        },
                  );

$poe_kernel->run();

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I get from this code on Win32 406 Not Acceptable, and on Linux 400 Bad request... The weird thing is that from time to time - randomly it works... - Both on Win32 and Linux :( My Request is formed right... I did dump both the request and response - for both URLs... If I don't use HTTPS - I don't have this problem at all. Looks like when wrapped with POCO::SSLify something bad happens. The responses on windows look like this: 
$VAR1 = bless( {
                 '_content' => '<html>
<HEAD><TITLE>Error: Not Acceptable</TITLE></HEAD>
<BODY>
<H1>Error: Not Acceptable</H1>
Response larger than MaxSize - 1
</BODY>
</HTML>
',
                 '_rc' => 406,
                 '_headers' => bless( {}, 'HTTP::Headers' ),
                 '_msg' => undef,
                 '_request' => bless( {
                                        '_protocol' => 'HTTP/1.1',
                                        '_content' => '',
                                        '_uri' => bless( do{\(my $o = 
+'https://www.tabonline.co.za/')}, 'URI::https' ),
                                        '_headers' => bless( {
                                                               'user-a
+gent' => 'POE-Component-Client-HTTP/0.82 (perl; N; POE; en; rv:0.8200
+00)',
                                                               'accept
+-encoding' => 'gzip',
                                                               'host' 
+=> 'www.tabonline.co.za'
                                                             }, 'HTTP:
+:Headers'
),
                                        '_method' => 'GET'
                                      }, 'HTTP::Request' )
               }, 'HTTP::Response' );

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Now the LWP one:
use LWP;
  my $url = 'https://www.tabonline.co.za/';   
  my $browser = LWP::UserAgent->new;
  my $response = $browser->get($url);
  die "Error at $url\n ", $response->status_line, "\n Aborting"
   unless $response->is_success;
  print "It worked!  I got that ",
   $response->content_type, " document!\n";
   
   
print $response->content;

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Works just fine...

In reply to SSL & POCO::CLIENT::HTTP by avo

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