Hi folks,
I'm using LWP as part of another module, HTTP::WebTest, for testing my web
apps. I am seeing an occassional error in my WebTest logs which, as best I
can tell since I see no errors in my server logs, is the result of a
timeout while trying to connect to the server. The error message reported
by LWP is
"500 (Internal Server Error) Can't connect to www.yahoo.edu:80 (Bad
hostname 'www.yahoo.edu')"
This question seems like an FAQ but the only relevant post I could find in
the archives was from Doug Monroe on 14-Sep-2000.
<http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg01280.html>
He suggests that this kind of error should be reported as a 504 which
makes more sense to me. Is there a historical reason or logical reason
that I'm not understanding for reporting a connection failure as a 500
response?
I've included a sample script at the end of my email to demonstrate this
behavior. In fact, I tried both an invalid url as well as a valid url with
my ethernet cable disconnected which should result in a timeout for which
I don't think there is an official HTTP status code. Both tests resulted
in the same response.
Thanks,
William
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#!/usr/bin/perl -Tw
use strict;
#
# TESTING HTTP::RESPONSE
#
use LWP::UserAgent;
use HTTP::Request;
use HTTP::Response;
my $url = 'http://www.yahoo.edu'; # invalid url
#my $url = 'http://www.yahoo.com'; # valid url (unplug/disable network to
test)
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
my $request = HTTP::Request->new(GET => $url);
my $response = $ua->request($request);
if ($response->is_success) {
print $response->content;
} else {
print $response->as_string;
}
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