On 13/07/07, Bond, Peter <PBond@???> wrote:
> Hi -
>
> I'm having a wee bit of a problem uploading a file (via HTTP POST) to a suspect webserver. Works fine from different browsers on WinXP, fails with Firefox on CentOS, fails with the Perl script I've cobbled together. I'm using the LWP::UserAgent & HTTP::Request::Common modules for the post request, and I'm wondering if the server is failing because it is expecting CR/LF pairs.
>
> So after all that babbling - is there an easy way to force Perl to make use of CR/LF in all it's methods?
I use the special variables $/ and $\ to define your output and input
delimiters respectively.
If you put near the start
use Socket qw/:DEFAULT :crlf/;
then you can say
$/ = $CR$LF; #(or $CRLF)
prior to your output statements.
>From `man Socket` :
Also, some common socket "newline" constants are provided: the con-
stants "CR", "LF", and "CRLF", as well as $CR, $LF, and $CRLF, which
map to "\015", "\012", and "\015\012". If you do not want to use the
literal characters in your programs, then use the constants provided
here. They are not exported by default, but can be imported individu-
ally, and with the ":crlf" export tag:
use Socket qw(:DEFAULT :crlf);
hth
victor