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Malte S. Stretz commented on COUCHDB-1025: ------------------------------------------ Doh. Sorry for the noise, next time I learn to read first. I added a short note to the HTTP_Document_API document and look for a place to document the multipart/form-data interface and the required Referer header (so Google actually finds something when you ask about it :) > Misleading error "Referer header required." when POSTing without a body > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: COUCHDB-1025 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COUCHDB-1025 > Project: CouchDB > Issue Type: Bug > Components: HTTP Interface > Affects Versions: 1.0.1 > Environment: Ubuntu 10.10, Perl modules involved: LWP 5.836, > JSON::Any 1.22, JSON 2.21, JSON::XS 2.29 > Reporter: Malte S. Stretz > Priority: Minor > > This one gave me headaches. I use the simple Perl library from > <http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Getting_started_with_Perl> in combination > with JSON::Any to push ~63000 documents to a database. Since I later want to > sync this data with outside changes, I calculated a hash of each document and > generated a document /hashes which maps the hashes to document names (I know, > not the best solution, but this should have been only a quick hack and I > wanted to keep the hashes out of the actual documents). After I split the > bulk pushing into batches of 1024 to get around timeouts in LWP, uploading > the data itself works fine. But the /hashes document always fails with > {"error":"bad_request","reason":"Referer header required."}. > After a lot of prodding in the wrong corners, Wireshark came to the rescue. > The data sent and received is quoted below; there appears to be some > problem/bug/config issue in LWP with POSTing large documents: The > Content-Length is set but no body is sent. This is not good. But the error > message coming back from CouchDB is almost worse :) > POST /certif/hashes HTTP/1.1 > TE: deflate,gzip;q=0.3 > Connection: TE, close > Host: localhost:5984 > User-Agent: libwww-perl/5.836 > Content-Type: application/json > Content-Length: 4478093 > HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request > Server: CouchDB/1.0.1 (Erlang OTP/R13B) > Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 16:47:57 GMT > Content-Type: text/plain;charset=utf-8 > Content-Length: 60 > Cache-Control: must-revalidate > {"error":"bad_request","reason":"Referer header required."} -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.