[Wellington-pm] Problems with HTTPS through LWP.

Srdjan srdjan at catalyst.net.nz
Mon Jun 19 16:48:41 PDT 2006


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I'm out for lunch, but what's the aoutput of respone->as_string? 500 is client
assigned code, ie not the response from server.
I bet it's a timeout...

michael at diaspora.gen.nz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've come across an interesting problem, and before filing a bug on
> rt.cpan.org, I thought I'd ask the list about it.
> 
> I have the following (minimal) program, which is giving me errors:
> 
>     #!/usr/bin/perl
>     use LWP::UserAgent;
>     use strict;
>     my $url = 'https://www.telstraclear.co.nz/usagemeter/index.cfm';
>     my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new();
>     my $rq = HTTP::Request->new('GET');
>     $rq->url($url);
>     my $rp = $ua->request($rq);
> 
>     die if $rp->code() == 500;
> 
> I'm using the Debian unstable packages of IO::Socket::SSL, and
> libwww-perl.
> 
> So far I've traced this down to a call to sysread on an IO::Socket::SSL
> object returning undef rather than 0 bytes (see my_read in
> Net::HTTP::Methods, which calls IO::Socket::SSL::sysread, which in turn
> calls Net::SSLeay::read, which is XS, and I don't know how to debug),
> but I can't figure out why it's doing it.
> 
> Furthermore, sometimes lwp-request of the same URL will work!
> (The 500 is definitely not authentic; it's a library problem.
> wget -O- $url will always return a result.)  Using a different URL
> (eg https://diaspora.gen.nz/) works fine.
> 
> Can anyone shed any light on this?
> 
>     -- michael
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