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Fix Content-Length Header On UTF8 With HTTP::Daemon In Perl

07.17.2006

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It seems that HTTP/Daemon.pm is bogus when it calculate
the header 'Content-Length' when the data contains UTF8 data .

In attachement a patch , to calculate the length in bytes
of the data .

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    / Erwan MAS                                                 /\
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--- Daemon.pm.orig      2004-12-11 16:13:22.000000000 +0100
+++ Daemon.pm   2006-05-02 22:53:33.660393022 +0200
@@ -436,7 +436,7 @@
            }
        }
        elsif (length($content)) {
-           $res->header("Content-Length" => length($content));
+           $res->header("Content-Length" => bytes::length($content));
        }
        else {
            $self->force_last_request;

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