Re: 501 return code

Never mind, this appears to be an re bug, when running in the debugger

http://minaret.biz/tips/perl.html

...I am running 5.8.7 on this server, which is listed in the above link.

                               Sorry to Bother.


On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 15:32 -0600, Scott T. Hildreth wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 16:49 -0500, Scott T. Hildreth wrote:
> > I have code that posts xml data to a http server (Tomcat).
> > Which works perfectly with perl 5.6.2, not with perl 5.8.?.
> > For a work around I have 5.6.2 installed and running the code, but
> > now I would like to figure out why this is not working with Perl 5.8 .
> > When I send the request, I get-
> > 
> >   DB<3> x $res
> > 0  HTTP::Response=HASH(0x89a7f78)
> >    '_content' => "501 Protocol scheme '\cG\c@\cH\c@' is not supported\cJ"
> 
>   Well, this happened again, I get 'nulls' (as posted originally) or I got 
> this 
>   msg today, dumping the response object :
> 
> '_content' => '501 Protocol scheme \'\' is not supported
> 
>   I traced this down to URI.pm, the _scheme method, 
> 
>   151:        unless (@_) {
>   152==>b         return unless $$self =~ /^($scheme_re):/o;
>   153:            return $1;
>   154         }
>  
>   I print to see $scheme_re =  '[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9.+\\-]*'
> 
>     DB<39> p $$self =~ /^($scheme_re):/o;
>     http
> 
>   ...so the regex is working, yet $1 is not captured
> 
>   153:            return $1;
>     DB<40> x $1
>     0 (basically not printable chars)
> 
>     ...and here is a dump of $$self,
> 
>     DB<41> x $$self
>     0  'http://192.168.1.100:8080/OTools/Dispatcher'
> 
>     
> ..I'm at a loss, does anyone have any ideas why this is happening?
> 
>                                Thanks.
> 
> > 
> > ..like I stated earlier, this works with 5.6.2.  I am not sure what has 
> > changed with Perl 5.8.* and what I need to do different.  Any ideas?
> > 
> > 
> >                                  Thanks,
> >                                      STH
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Scott T. Hildreth <shildret@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>