[Catalyst] redirects and FastCGI in Catalyst 5.80030

[Tobias Klug]

Thanks a lot.

Your patch solved the problem. Is this going to be fixed permanently in
one of the next releases? Can I file a bug somewhere?

-- Tobias

On 27.01.2011 11:38, Pedro Melo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Tobias Klug <tklug at hartle-klug.de> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am new to this mailinglist, but have tried to find an answer to my
>> question in the archives without success.
>>
>> I have a Catalyst-App running on a FastCGI deployment. Up until Catalyst
>> 5.80029 everything worked fine. But since the new version Catalyst
>> 5.80030 I get warnings on redirects such as this:
>>
>> [warn] mod_fcgid: stderr: Use of uninitialized value $buffer in
>> concatenation (.) or string at
>> /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.0/Catalyst/Engine/FastCGI.pm line 173.
> This should solve the warning:
>
> --- FastCGI.pm.orig	2011-01-27 10:36:43.000000000 +0000
> +++ FastCGI.pm	2011-01-27 10:36:46.000000000 +0000
> @@ -158,6 +158,7 @@
>
>  sub write {
>      my ( $self, $c, $buffer ) = @_;
> +    $buffer = '' unless defined $buffer;
>
>      unless ( $self->_prepared_write ) {
>          $self->prepare_write($c);
>
>
> Starting from 5.80030, the buffer can be undef.
>
> I haven't tested the above patch, I don't use Engine::FastCGI.
>
> Bye,