I'm sorry that I didn't read your original post closely enough.

It would seem to me that a very simple approach to testing where the bottleneck lies would be in patching/replacing the subroutine HTTP::Request::Common::form_data to read the data in chunks larger than 2048 bytes. Unfortunately, ->form_data is very large and monolithic and there is no easy way to change it other than copying it into your source code and replacing it:

use HTTP::Request::Common;

sub my_post_file {
    my $bufsize = 10_240_000;
    local *HTTP::Request::Common::form_data = sub {
        ...
    my $buflength = length $buf;
    my $n = read($fh, $buf, $bufsize, $buflength);
        if ($n) {
        $buflength += $n;
        unshift(@parts, ["", $fh]);
    }
        ...
    };

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If this change alone brings "enough" speedup, it might be worth to submit a patch back upstream that makes the POST buffer size configurable.

In reply to Re^3: SOLVED: HTTP-POST with IO::Socket -- Header problem by Corion
in thread HTTP-POST with IO::Socket -- Header problem by Beavis

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