Re: LWP::Protocol::file is tripped up by a bug in -e

I'm not convinced this is the right thing to do.  How did the $path
string end up utf8::upgraded() in the first place here?

--Gisle

On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 23:14, Father Chrysostomos <[email protected]> wrote:
> Perl’s -e ignores the internal UTF8 flag. (See <http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=77242>.)
>
> LWP::Protocol::file triggers this bug in this piece of code:
>
>    # test file exists and is readable
>    unless (-e $path) {
>        return new HTTP::Response &HTTP::Status::RC_NOT_FOUND,
>                                  "File `$path' does not exist";
>    }
>
> If you add
>    $path =~ /[^\0-\xff]/ or utf8::downgrade($path); # work around perl bug #77242
> before the ‘unless’ statement, it works.
>
>