[Catalyst] Problem with POST from IE and Catalyst::Engine::HTTP

[Andy Grundman]

On Mar 23, 2007, at 4:38 PM, Ashley Pond V wrote:

> On Friday, Mar 23, 2007, at 13:47 US/Pacific, Andy Grundman wrote:
>> I believe Safari is fine, it doesn't have the same bug IE does.   
>> Have you had problems with it?
>>
> Yep. I think I brought this up like … over a year ago. I'll go fire  
> up a clean test app to make sure it's still an issue and not  
> something left over from older development I've done.
>
> Yep. Starting a clean App with the test server just hangs Safari:
>
>   Safari can’t open the page.
>   Safari could not open the page “http://localhost:3000/” because  
> the server stopped responding.
>
> -k has no effect. The debug output never shows the request at all.  
> I *think* IE for Mac (not to support development for it, I know  
> it's abandon-ware) had the same problem with earlier versions of  
> Cat's test server but it did not have any trouble just now. I had  
> the same problem on Safari years ago with a socket level chat  
> server and it had to do with knowing when to stop reading the  
> incoming request (that's why I was guessing it might be related to  
> the char counting, line ending issue). Sorry I don't have the code  
> in front of me to compare.

It dies on a GET request?  Can you run your server like this:

CATALYST_HTTP_DEBUG=1 perl script/myapp_server.pl -d

Then repeat the same thing and add -k.

Here's my output for reference (non-keepalive):

New connection
Read 239 bytes
Parsed request: GET / HTTP/1.1
Parsed headers: bless({
   "accept" => "*/*",
   "accept-encoding" => "gzip, deflate",
   "accept-language" => "en",
   connection => "keep-alive",
   host => "localhost:3000",
   "user-agent" => "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en)  
AppleWebKit/419 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/419.3",
}, "HTTP::Headers")
write: Wrote headers and first chunk (5807 bytes)
[info] *** Request 7 (0.123/s) [693] [Fri Mar 23 15:46:54 2007] ***
[debug] "GET" request for "/" from "127.0.0.1"
[info] Request took 0.007717s (129.584/s)
.---------------------------------------------------------------- 
+-----------.
| Action                                                         |  
Time      |
+---------------------------------------------------------------- 
+-----------+
| /default                                                       |  
0.000750s |
| /end                                                           |  
0.000199s |
'---------------------------------------------------------------- 
+-----------'

Request done
Closing connection
New connection
Read 303 bytes
Parsed request: GET /static/images/catalyst_logo.png HTTP/1.1
Parsed headers: bless({
   "accept" => "*/*",
   "accept-encoding" => "gzip, deflate",
   "accept-language" => "en",
   connection => "keep-alive",
   host => "localhost:3000",
   referer => "http://localhost:3000/",
   "user-agent" => "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en)  
AppleWebKit/419 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/419.3",
}, "HTTP::Headers")
write: Wrote headers and first chunk (13912 bytes)
Request done
Closing connection