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Warning when producing an error message

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Difficulty
1/5
Estimated time
Under an hour
Newbie friendliness
50/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
perl
Domain
networking

Research direction

Start in lib/Net/HTTP/Methods.pm at line 528 and trace how $line is handled when chunk data transmission fails. Verify the condition against both defined and undefined values, then confirm that the transmission error no longer emits the uninitialized-value warning while the intended missing-newline error remains.

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Description

In lib/Net/HTTP/Methods.pm line 528, you can find

die "Missing newline after chunk data: '$line'"
    if !defined($line) || $line ne "";

On an transmission error, we got

Use of uninitialized value $line in concatenation (.) or string at Net/HTTP/Methods.pm line 528.

The logic seems incorrect:

die "Missing newline after chunk data: '$line'"
   if defined $line && $line ne '';
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