[mp2] slurping files

[ben syverson]

What's the best way to slurp a file in mod_perl 2? I'm trying to use:
$r->filename('somefile.txt');
$text = ${ $r->slurp_filename() };
But it returns:
Error: read 23 bytes, expected 512 ('(null)')
The file is 23 bytes -- is mod_perl expecting files to end in a null 
char?

- ben