[Catalyst] Testing server hangs with Safari and some others

[apv]

Hmmm. I'm not using CGI (it hangs on the most minimal 
install/welcome-page) and I have the most recent regular TT2 release.

I'm glad you mention it though b/c I did have the problem you list with 
another TT2 form (not in Catalyst) and I found on antoher list that 
naming the CGI instance or calling it with a namespace fixed the 
hanging. [% USE CGI(foo) %] or [% USE mycgi = CGI(foo) %].

http://www.template-toolkit.org/pipermail/templates/2002-May/003242.html

I wrote a chat server about 4 years ago that had the same problem of 
hanging on Safari but not on the others. I can't remember how I solved 
it now but there was something different about the way Safari handled 
the socket blocking on reads between headers and body, I think. I'll 
try to dig up that code and compare it to the test server code.

-Ashley

On Wednesday, Jul 26, 2006, at 08:16 US/Pacific, Jonathan Rockway wrote:
>
>> Doh, 5.7001
>>
>
> I had this problem (on many platforms) with older versions of TT.  For 
> some reason, TT would time out if [% USE CGI %] appeared anywhere in 
> any templates.  Sometimes.  Other times it wouldn't.  It was really 
> weird, and I pulled out a lot of hair debugging it, but could never 
> get enough info to file a bug report.  For all I know, this is still a 
> problem; I stopped using CGI and just printed out my forms manually.  
> (I was also using cgi's escape function, to escape UTF-8 characters in 
> URIs [required by the W3C, apparently, although I don't know why], but 
> I eventually got TT's [% foo | uri | html %] to work -- if you set 
> TT's charset to UTF-8, it won't escape URIs.  Irritating.  I reported 
> this as a bug, and it was immediately marked "resolved" without being 
> resolved.  *sigh*)
>
> As for debugging this, use Carp and then "confess" in various places.  
> Eventually you'll put the confess somewhere after the timeout, and 
> then you can narrow down what exactly is causing the problem.  
> Although, sometimes catalyst eats dies for some reason, and you don't 
> get this (with the server).  In that case, try just running perl 
> -MMyApp -e 'MyApp->start'.
>
> Any advice from the developers on how to get "die" to be more fatal 
> would be greatly appreciated :)
>
> Regards,
> Jonathan Rockway
>
>
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