out of the blue, simple GET request won't complete

Doug Martin 4-6576 (martind@mr.med.ge.com)
Fri, 4 Apr 1997 15:32:31 -0600 

Hello everyone:

I have an agent that I have used for a bunch of sites or for a few months now.
Suddenly, I find a site that my agent successfully connects to, begins
retrieving the contents from, and abruptly stops receiving data and hangs. I
have not experienced this before. I am on an sgi, running irix5.3. I turned the
LWP debug switch on and looked at a successful (other site) and my current
attempts. The only thing I see is that on the unsuccessful session, the site
seems to complain about the header, i.e.:

Date: Fri, 04 Apr 1997 22:20:59 GMT
Accept: */*
Host: www.coldwellbanker.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/3.0 (X11; I; IRIX 5.3 IP22)
Content-Length: 0
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
MIME-Version: 1.0
PROXY-CONNECTION: Keep-Alive

'

LWP::Socket::write: ()
LWP::Protocol::http::request: reading response
LWP::Socket::read: (...)
LWP::IO::read: Read 16 bytes
LWP::IO::read: HTTP/1.0 200 OK
LWP::Protocol::http::request: HTTP/1.0 200 OK
LWP::Protocol::http::request: need more data for headers
LWP::Socket::read: (...)
LWP::IO::read: Read 223 bytes
LWP::IO::read: Content-Type: text/html
But then moves happily on to begin retrieving the contents, but stops in the middle, i.e. LWP::Socket::pushback: (198 bytes) LWP::Protocol::http::__ANON__: Collecting LWP::Socket::read: (...) LWP::Protocol::collect: read 198 bytes LWP::Protocol::http::__ANON__: Collecting LWP::Socket::read: (...) At this point the process hangs indefinitely. Is this a known problem or bug that I missed in the mailing list archives (maybe a variation on the broken pipe problem)? If so, could someone just point me that way? If not, and I am doing something wrong, any tips greatly appreciated. Thanks much, Doug Martin -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ + John D. Martin phone: (414) 521-6576 + + Global Advanced Technology Group email: martind@mr.med.ge.com + + GE Medical Systems + P.O. Box 414, W-875 + + Milwaukee, WI 53201-0414 + +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++