in reply to Undeleteable header in WWW::Mechanize

I've started looking into this.

1) It's not WWW::Mechanize adding that header.

And even if it was,

2) The last thing WWW::Mechanize does before passing the request on to the underlying library is to process add_header directives, so $mech->add_header( TE => undef); would work if it was WWW::Mechanize adding that header.

I'm off to check if it's something in libwww-perl, or it if it's an external source (such as a proxy).

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Re^2: Undeleteable header in WWW::Mechanize
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Dec 19, 2007 at 22:17 UTC

    It took some searching, but I found that it's added by Net::HTTP at the request of LWP::Protocol::http. You can change the default by using 

    @LWP::Protocol::http::EXTRA_SOCK_OPTS = (
   SendTE => 0,
);

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    You can use local to limit the scope of the change if you desire. 

    {
   local @LWP::Protocol::http::EXTRA_SOCK_OPTS = (
      SendTE => 0,
   );

   ...do the request...
}

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    Untested.

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      works like a charm.
      I feel pretty stupid now, that'd have been the last place I would have looked. That also fixed an issue with the Connection header being set to "keep-alive, close" since it's possible to set a proper Keep-Alive header like this:
      local @LWP::Protocol::http::EXTRA_SOCK_OPTS = (
   SendTE => 0,
   KeepAlive => 1
);

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      Thank You!
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