Re^3: sending a large file via http

So does this mean that the content-length header value is no longer used?

I can't tell from the LWP docs if it handles that for you, but you can still set it yourself, for example with my $length = -s $filename; and then adding the appropriate header.

Regarding your code, I read the docs slightly differently:

    my $request = HTTP::Request->new('POST', $url, $headers);
    $request->protocol('HTTP/1.1');
    my $browser = LWP::UserAgent->new();
    my $response = $browser->request($request, \&sendthis);
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That is, you pass the callback to the LWP->request method, not the HTTP::Request constructor.

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Re^4: sending a large file via http by mifflin (Curate) on Jun 18, 2007 at 23:42 UTC
Thanks for the response. I made the changes you suggested above. Now if I could just get the client to give me a url so I can test....	[reply]
Re^4: sending a large file via http by tty04 (Initiate) on Nov 09, 2007 at 23:28 UTC
Check out LWP/Protocol/http.pm When request is called here, your coderef is in $arg sub request { my($self, $request, $proxy, $arg, $size, $timeout) = @_; ... my $content_ref = $request->content_ref; $content_ref = $$content_ref if ref($$content_ref); .... if (ref($content_ref) eq 'CODE') { my $buf = &$content_ref(); ... http.pm doesn't look at $arg as a code ref. Instead it looks at $content_ref. But if $content_ref was a code ref, then you'll get a run time error. It'll never work ! This feature is totally broken.	[reply]