Re: Test failures when upgrading from 2.000004 to 2.000005

Hi Torsten,

Thanks for the speedy reply. Yes, you're right, I do have LWP 6.02 installed.

For my personal case, I'll delay dropping back to LWP 5 until I see that something is broken. I just thought I'd file the bug report as requested at the end of the error output.

All the best,

John


----- Original Message -----
From: Torsten Förtsch <[email protected]>
Date: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 12:15 pm
Subject: Re: Test failures when upgrading from 2.000004 to 2.000005
To: [email protected]
Cc: John O'Brien <[email protected]>

> On Tuesday, April 26, 2011 12:25:07 John O'Brien wrote:
> > I have mod_perl 2.000004 and tried to upgrade to 2.000005
> 
> Could it be that you have upgraded not only modperl but also LWP 
> to 
> something 6.xx?
> 
> The point is LWP 5.xx used HTTP/1.0. LWP 6.xx has silently 
> switched to 
> HTTP/1.1. There is currently no easy way (afaik) to have LWP 6 
> use 
> HTTP/1.0. Further, LWP 6 still seems quite buggy to me.
> 
> Some of our test suite (and also the httpd framework) depends on 
> LWP 
> performing HTTP/1.0 calls. So, for the time being I'd recommend 
> going 
> back to LWP 5.
> 
> modperl trunk should work with LWP 6.00. Some of the changes to 
> make it 
> work were quite ugly. So, if someone wants a small project to 
> contribute 
> improving the current state and fixing the bugs in LWP would be 
> a good 
> thing.
> 
> We need for Apache::TestRequest:
> 
> - a simple way to switch between HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/1.0 (with 
> HTTP/1.0 as 
> default). See also (for half of a very ugly solution)
> 
>   http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/apache/dev/398087#398087
> 
> - a way to fetch response headers that contain underline 
> characters (_) 
> as well as minus characters (-).
> 
> - should work with LWP 5 and LWP 6
> 
> Torsten Förtsch
> 
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