[Catalyst-dev] Catalyst trouble with request body >4096

[Adam Jacob]

On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 02:38:20PM -0500, Andy Grundman wrote:
> Adam Jacob wrote:
> >It appears that Catalyst has some trouble with reading a request body
> >that's >4096.  It apparently will populate the request body twice,
> >causing some pretty strange behavior if you are processing large body's.  
> >
> >A test case is attached.  It just takes a string that begins with three
> >"---"s, followed by enough a's to get the length high enough.  It then
> >POSTs that data to Catalyst, and the method it's dispatched to will
> >simply print the request body as the response body.
> >
> >When the length is <4096, you will only see one instance of ---.  When
> >the length is >4096, you'll see two.
> 
> If this is correct it's a pretty serious bug.  I will look into it a bit 
> later this evening.

This bug is present with HTTP::Body < 0.06.  Andy is bumping the version
dep up as I write this.  Thanks to Andy for the super-fast turn around!

Adam