Fix pipelined response deadlock in tests There's a race condition that can cause mod_perl's test suite to hang in t/filter/in_str_declined.t. The problem is that the response handler starts generating response body, and so triggers header output, before it reads the request body. If LWP::Protocol::http, which is the client for this test, receives a complete set of response headers, it will stop sending the request body. (However, if the request body is no more than 8192 octets then it will send the whole body before it starts looking for a response. The failure only shows up with an appreciably large request body.) RFC 2616 doesn't explicitly address this sort of pipelining, but the start of section 6 does say "After receiving and interpreting a request message, a server responds with an HTTP response message.", which can be read as prohibiting sending any part of the response before the entire request has been received. The attached patch fixes this issue by making all the POST handlers in the test suite read the body before doing anything that generates output (specifically plan()). -zefram CPAN RT#82409 Debian bug #676754 --- a/t/filter/TestFilter/in_str_declined.pm 2011-02-08 02:00:11.000000000 +0000 +++ b/t/filter/TestFilter/in_str_declined.pm 2013-01-04 16:08:14.000000000 +0000 @@ -35,13 +35,17 @@ sub response { my $r = shift; + my $data; + if ($r->method_number == Apache2::Const::M_POST) { + # consume the data so the input filter is invoked + $data = TestCommon::Utils::read_post($r); + } + plan $r, tests => 2; $r->content_type('text/plain'); if ($r->method_number == Apache2::Const::M_POST) { - # consume the data so the input filter is invoked - my $data = TestCommon::Utils::read_post($r); ok t_cmp(length $data, 20000, "the request body received ok"); } --- a/t/filter/TestFilter/in_str_declined_read.pm 2011-02-08 02:00:11.000000000 +0000 +++ b/t/filter/TestFilter/in_str_declined_read.pm 2013-01-04 16:06:28.000000000 +0000 @@ -31,14 +31,19 @@ sub response { my $r = shift; + my $err; + if ($r->method_number == Apache2::Const::M_POST) { + # this should fail, because of the failing filter + eval { TestCommon::Utils::read_post($r) }; + $err = $@; + } + plan $r, tests => 1; $r->content_type('text/plain'); if ($r->method_number == Apache2::Const::M_POST) { - # this should fail, because of the failing filter - eval { TestCommon::Utils::read_post($r) }; - ok $@; + ok $err; } Apache2::Const::OK; --- a/t/filter/TestFilter/in_str_msg.pm 2011-02-08 02:00:11.000000000 +0000 +++ b/t/filter/TestFilter/in_str_msg.pm 2013-01-04 16:08:27.000000000 +0000 @@ -76,10 +76,10 @@ sub response { my $r = shift; - plan $r, tests => 1; - my $received = TestCommon::Utils::read_post($r); + plan $r, tests => 1; + ok t_cmp($received, $expected, "request filter must have upcased the data"); --- a/t/response/TestModperl/post_utf8.pm 2011-02-08 02:00:12.000000000 +0000 +++ b/t/response/TestModperl/post_utf8.pm 2013-01-04 16:04:39.000000000 +0000 @@ -29,14 +29,14 @@ # $r->content_type("text/plain; charset=utf-8"); # $r->print("expected: $expected_utf8\n"); + my $received = TestCommon::Utils::read_post($r) || ""; + # utf encode/decode was added only in 5.8.0 # XXX: currently binmode is only available with perlio (used on the # server side on the tied/perlio STDOUT) plan $r, tests => 2, need need_min_perl_version(5.008), need_perl('perlio'); - my $received = TestCommon::Utils::read_post($r) || ""; - # workaround for perl-5.8.0, which doesn't decode correctly a # tainted variable require ModPerl::Util;