Hacktoberfest 2026: the issues maintainers tagged for October, open and beginner-friendly. Browse Hacktoberfest issues

Using HTTP proxy hangs [rt.cpan.org #81099]

Open
  • Is something wrong?
#25 0 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

Nobody has claimed this yet.

Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
perl
Domain
networking

Research direction

Start by reproducing an HTTP proxy request using Net-HTTP versions 6.03, 6.04, and 6.05, focusing on requests that exceed the timeout. Compare whether the newer versions return within the configured timeout rather than hanging indefinitely.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Description

Migrated from rt.cpan.org#81099 (status was 'new')

Requestors:

From [email protected] on 2012-11-10 21:42:51:

When using an HTTP proxy on versions 6.04 and 6.05, the query does does not
always respect the timeout and will hang indefinitely. When I revert to version
6.03, the problem disappears.
Dominant language
Perl
Stars
20
Forks
27
No merged PRs in 30d

Getting set up

This project ships no dev container, Dockerfile or contributing guide, so setting up is up to you: start from its README, and see our first-contribution guide for the general steps.

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

More from libwww-perl/Net-HTTP

All issues in libwww-perl/Net-HTTP

Similar issues

More Perl issues

Get new issues in your inbox

A short digest of beginner-friendly GitHub issues.