libwww and setting a timeout

John Gerrish (John_Gerrish@dot.state.ak.us)
Wed, 14 Feb 2001 08:40:11 -0900


> Subject:         libwww and setting a timeout
>    Date:         Tue, 13 Feb 2001 16:48:31 -0500
>    From:         "Thomas Tatum" <ttatum@koz.com>
>     To:         <libwww@perl.org>
> 
> 
> My name is Thomas Tatum and I am new to this mailing list (hello! - first
> time poster)
>
> I feel there is still an outstanding timeout bug in the libwww library that
> needs addressing.  I think it has been brought up before on the mailing list
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Dear Tom,
I would say this could be the same problem I was having.  It is an interaction between MS IIS as a server and Sun Solaris as the OS on a client.  The IIS does not send an end of file/transmission at
the end of a page (randomly) and solaris times-out waiting for it.  References to it can be found on this list during January as:

     Request Post error useragent.pm line 227
 
     Can't call method "request" on an undefined value at ...

     Workaround for LWP/Solaris missing EOF bug

One of which includes this:
No, but I haven't really looked. My sysadmin turned up the following 
relevant thread in comp.unix.solaris... mentions a solaris patch.


http://x76.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=690080681&search=thread&CONTEXT=980286220.1420296374&HIT_CONTEXT=980286174.1422524417&HIT_NUM=14&hitnum=0


http://x76.deja.com/getdoc.xp?AN=690191763&search=thread&CONTEXT=980286220.1420296374&HIT_CONTEXT=980286174.1422524417&HIT_NUM=14&hitnum=2

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