When using the a Netscape proxy server to fetch (GET) a file, if the file
has been cached, then part of the HTTP headers get stored with the file.
[This causes problems with binary files!]
Using debug shows the following header lines:
[snip]
Warning: 10 host:port "Remote server was not contacted, document may be out
of date"
Last checked: Mon Apr 03 17:49:01 2000
Server: Netscape-Proxy/2.52
Content-Length: nnn
Content-Type: etc
<blank line>
All the lines starting with "Last checked:" are copied to the output file.
Inspection of the LWP code suggests that the problem is the space in the
"Last checked:" header line - presumably this is not a valid HTTP header.
Temporarily changing the regular expression in HTTP.PM to allow a space
fixes the problem, but strikes me as a kludge.
Can anyone advise the best course of action (excluding fixing the proxy
server!) ?
One possibility would be to avoid the problem by telling the proxy to fetch
the file unconditionally - can anyone tell me what the magic request header
might be to effect this?
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