[Catalyst] Anybody who fancies some LWP poking ...

John Goulah jgoulah at gmail.com
Thu May 15 15:20:23 BST 2008


On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 7:35 AM, Thomas Klausner <domm at cpan.org> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 07:10:27PM +0100, Leon Brocard wrote:
>> 2008/5/10 Daniel McBrearty <danielmcbrearty at gmail.com>:
>>
>> > I'd like Leon's opinion on this. Forwarding to him again.
>>
>> I understand many bits of it but have given up trying to get it
>> working. I would love a patch which passes tests on both old and new
>> lib-www-perls.
>
> Today we where hit by this, and I dug into the code...
>
> The problems seems to lie in WWW::Mechanize and
> Test::WWW::Mechanize::Catalyst.
>
> I was able to (sort of) fix it with the attached two patches.
>
> T:W:M:C tests work after those patches (as do our tests...), but
> WWW::Mechanize spews some "Parsing of undecoded UTF-8 will give garbage
> when decoding entitie" warnings. And I'm not in the mood for utf8
> debugging ...
>
> I have to say that I did not analyse the whole problem, and in fact we
> just downgrade to libwww-perl-5.808. But if these findings help someone
> with deeper knowledge to really solve the problem, I'd be delighted!
>


Since these fix tests, will these modules get patched and released
with this applied?


Thanks
John



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