I believe this is fixed by my patch and released as 1.38. http://github.com/gisle/uri/commit/4af5412726c6f719d76ffb666054a72c9cd2c492 http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/GAAS/URI-1.38/Changes
On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 6:11 PM, John Napiorkowski<jjn1...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi, > > This is a message regarding RT36554 (also at > http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=36554) This is a quasi bug in > one of the test cases (t/heuristics.t) that causes a single test to fail if > your local internet service provider is playing silly buggers with failed > host name lookups. Although I discuss the problem in more detail over on the > referenced link, the short story is that some internet providers return a > positive result for 'www.perl.bz' even though that domain does not really > exist. It appears that some providers use the opportunity of a failed > hostname lookup to return some 'helpful' adverstivements. This is very > common among a lot of internet providers targeting private homes. > > As a result URI fails to install, even though this test failure is really not > related to any problems with URI. However, it seems that 9 out of the 11 > reported test failures are related to this problem. The fix is trivial and I > have posted it on a fork of the URI git repository over at: > http://gitorious.org/~jnapiorkowski/perl-uri/uri-heuristicstest-fix > > You can also see the exact diff of this proposed patch over at: > http://gitorious.org/~jnapiorkowski/perl-uri/uri-heuristicstest-fix/commit/b18366e443138fe41125d659e9572a0e90392c87 > > I sent in a merge request to the URI git mainline, but it was rejected. The > reason given was that no one had heard of this problem. Please spend a > moment looking at the RT mentioned and you can see this problem has been > reported for over a year. > > If I am not following the correct procedure for submitting bugs and patches, > please let me know. Right now this problem is affecting my work deployment > and every time I have to tell the local admin to force install URI before > installing Catalyst this gets flagged and I have to answer why I am doing new > development in Perl when it's so buggy :) > > Thanks! > John > > > > > -- Tatsuhiko Miyagawa
