Bug#745823: libwww-perl: an https request with iso-8859-1 headers, chunked transfer and data with utf8 bit on is corrupted.

[John Hughes]

On 26/04/14 18:49, John Hughes wrote:
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>      if (ref($content_ref) eq 'CODE') {
>          my $buf = &$content_ref();
>          $buf = "" unless defined($buf);
> +        utf8::downgrade ($buf);
>          $buf = sprintf "%x%s%s%s", length($buf), $CRLF, $buf, $CRLF
>          if $chunked;
>          substr($buf, 0, 0) = $req_buf if $req_buf
>
>
>
But that's the wrong place to fix it.  The bug is realy in 
$socket->syswrite, aka Crypt::SSLeay::Conn::write.

That's where the bug should be fixed.