[Catalyst] HTTP Response body doesn't get sent

[Tomas Doran]

Terence Monteiro wrote:
> In my Catalyst application, I'm reading an attachment of a multipart
> message into a variable and trying to send it as HTTP response. I've set
> the content type too, but I don't get the file on the browser.
> 
> I'm getting the following in the log:
> 
> Caught exception in engine "Not a GLOB reference at
> /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/Catalyst/Engine.pm line 47."
> 
> I'm dumping the same variable contents into a temp file, and on
> checking, it gives me the same content and content length as is being
> set as $c->res->body and $c->res->content_length respectively. I'm using
> Marc Overmeer's Mail::Box module to parse the message and fetch the
> attachment.
> 
> Controller action code:
>     # fetching $content
>     $c->res->body($content);
>     my $ctype = $attach->contentType;
>     $c->res->content_type($ctype);

Setting the body expects the parameter to be a file handle unless its a 
straight scalar.

Your $content, I guess, is a reference to some object, which is what is 
causing the issues.

Cheers
t0m