1. Error on a first pass: "Can't call method "clone" on unblessed reference at /usr/share/perl5/HTTP/Message.pm line 32."

2. Shouldn't the %ENV variable names be mapped to the a-bit-different HTTP Header names?

3. And we are passing a hashref to the HTTP::Request constructor, but it expects an arrayref (solved via this node).

Changed code: 
my %env_to_httpheader = (
        'HTTP_USER_AGENT'       => 'User-Agent',
        'HTTP_HOST'             => 'Host',
        'HTTP_TE'               => 'Accept-Encoding',
        'CONTENT_LENGTH'        => 'Content-Length',
        # from here on blurry from memory: (and probably more to inclu
+de as well..)
        'CONTENT_ENCODING'      => 'Content-Encoding',
        'CONTENT_TYPE'          => 'Content-Type',
);

my $headers;
foreach my $key (keys %env_to_httpheader) {
        if (exists $ENV{$key}) {
                # $headers->{ $env_to_httpheader{$key} } = $ENV{$key};
                # "The optional $header argument should be a reference
+ to an HTTP::Headers object or a plain array reference of key/value p
+airs."
                push(@{ $headers }, $env_to_httpheader{$key});
                push(@{ $headers }, $ENV{$key});
        }
}

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Result: After changing this, it works!

Any leftovers, hints, tweaks for this piece of code before I move it to production code? For example, a module for the ENV to HTTP Header translation, or similar improvements?

2c: A lengthy hack, isn't it? Just to get a HTTP::Response out of CGI.pm/CGI::Fast. Once more, I dislike this CGI.pm-behemoth..

In reply to Re^4: Does CGI::Application expose a HTTP::Request object? by isync
in thread Does CGI::Application expose a HTTP::Request object? by isync

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