[dancer-users] "Route exception: Bad Content-Length: maybe client disconnect?" with JSON POST and request->content

[Lennart Hengstmengel]

Hi all,

I'm running into an issue that looks like a bug, but I'm unsure where it 
comes from. Could be in Dancer2, but maybe in Plack::Request, or even in 
Plack::Test, HTTP::Request, or somewhere else. I'm kinda lost in the 
woods. I was hoping that a mind greater than mine can shed some light on 
this.

I get an error "Route exception: Bad Content-Length: maybe client 
disconnect? (xx bytes remaining)" where xx is the total content length 
of the request body.
But only under the following conditions:

- (valid) JSON POST to a Dancer2 app
- the app is configured with serializer = JSON
- in the route there's a call to: request->content
- using Plack::Test and HTTP::Request

Attached is a minimal test to demonstrate the issue. Test no 5 fails.

I cannot reproduce this issue when using f.e. curl, this call works 
without errors:

     curl --data-binary '{ "foo": "123" }' --header 'Content-type: 
application/json' http://localhost:3000/nok

I am using the latest version of Dancer (0.200003) and also latest CPAN 
versions of Plack and HTTP::Request.

Any insights?

Thanks,
Lennart




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