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Just in case you like to know, I'm currently full-time father of 2 kids, half-time Perl hacker, sort-of DJ, bicyclist, no longer dreadlocked and 33 years old
I'm also head of Vienna.pm [pm.org], maintainer of the CPANTS [perl.org] project, member of the TPF Grants Commitee [perlfoundation.org] and the YAPC Europe Foundation [yapceurope.org].
I've got stuff on CPAN [cpan.org], held various talks [domm.plix.at] and organised YAPC::Europe 2007 in Vienna [yapceurope.org].
LWP and HTTP/1.1
So, to conform to some anal webservice I had to issue a HTTP-request with 'HTTP/1.1' in the 'headers' (actually in the first line posted to the server, like 'POST').
First I wondered that HTTP::Request isn't issuing it by default (or at least 'HTTP/1.0'). But the requests only started with 'POST'. After some futile paging through LWP docs, I greped the source code, and after some fiddling discovered the protocol method in HTTP::Message.
Now, HTTP::Request ISA HTTP::Message, and states so in the docs: "HTTP::Request is a subclass of HTTP::Message and therefore inherits its methods.". I still missed this point, which caused a 30-minutes detour. And I can only blame me, Grr
But now I know, and for future (google) reference:
my $req=HTTP::Request->new(...);
$req->protocol('HTTP/1.1');
Or is it a BUG?"
"Let's call it an accidental feature. :-)"
--Larry Wall in <6909@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
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