Re: 'POST' method leads to "411 Length Required"

Dear Keary,

Thank you for getting back to me.

Some parts of the HTTP spec are ambiguous and left to implementation. In
> this specific case, error 411 means the server is saying that you are not
> sending a necessary content-length header, which is required for POSt
> requests whether there is any content or not. It may be that LWP doesn't
> provide the header if there is no content. Did you inspect the request to
> verify that the content-length header is indeed being sent?
>
> If the header is indeed being sent, the server might be choking on a 0
> length. Send bogus data to see if that helps.


Initially, I received www.google.com with GET, and "411 Length Required"
with POST.

Subsequently, I tried providing header and content:

     $request = new HTTP::Request 'GET', 'http://www.google.com', [asdf =>
'fdsa'], "dummy content";

and now with GET I see: "411 Length Required", and with POST: "405 Method
Not Allowed".

So, I am pretty baffled as to what the rules are, and how I can make this
work.

Thanx,

Aaron

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Aaron ("Aharon") Naiman
Jerusalem College of Technology--Machon Lev
[email protected]
http://math.jct.ac.il/~naiman