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Maybe HTTP::Message? (Score:1)

by ChrisDolan (2855) on 2008.10.03 23:12 (#65283) Homepage Journal

Just a wild guess, based on my own experiences with surprise failures recently and a quick skim of the bug reports you linked to:
Back in July, Gisle Aas changed HTTP::Message (the superclass of HTTP::Response) to do additional Unicode validation and downgrading. Previously that module just assumed content was bytes rather than characters. This change broke Test::WWW::Mechanize::Catalyst in particular, because that module had a workaround for a WWW::Mechanize unicode bug, but the HTTP::Message change killed the workaround.

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