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Perl LWP::UserAgent hangs for 120 seconds seemingly randomly against a given server

I noticed a delay of approximately 120 seconds between handling the response_data and response_done events in WWW::Mechanize with a given https web site. I checked with a normal web browser and do not experience this slowness so I suspect there is something I must do wrong.

Here is what I did to trace the events (for some reason use LWP::Debug qw(+) did not do anything):

use WWW::Mechanize;
use Time::HiRes qw(gettimeofday);
use IO::Handle;

my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new(
  timeout     => 3,
  autocheck   => 1,       # check success of each query
  stack_depth => 0,       # no keeping history
  keep_alive  => 50,      # connection pool
);

$mech->agent_alias( 'Windows IE 6' );
open my $debugfile, '>traffic.txt';
$debugfile->autoflush(1);

$mech->add_handler( request_send => sub {
    my $cur_time = gettimeofday();
    my $req = shift;
    print $debugfile "\n$cur_time === BEGIN HTTP REQUEST ===\n";
    print $debugfile $req->dump();
    print $debugfile "\n$cur_time ===   END HTTP REQUEST ===\n";
    return
  }
);
$mech->add_handler( response_header => sub {
    my $cur_time = gettimeofday();
    my $res = shift;
    print $debugfile "\n$cur_time === GOT RESPONSE HDRS ===\n";
    print $debugfile $res->dump();
    return
  }
);
$mech->add_handler( response_data => sub {
    my $cur_time = gettimeofday();
    my $res = shift;
    my $content_length = length($res->content);
    print $debugfile "$cur_time === Got response data chunk resp size = $content_length ===\n";
    return
  }
);
$mech->add_handler( response_done => sub {
    my $cur_time = gettimeofday();
    my $res = shift;
    print $debugfile "\n$cur_time === BEGIN HTTP RESPONSE ===\n";
    print $debugfile $res->dump();
    print $debugfile "\n===   END HTTP RESPONSE ===\n";
    return
  }
);

And here is a excerpt of the traces (URLs and cookies are obfuscated):

1347463214.24724 === BEGIN HTTP REQUEST ===
GET https://...
Accept-Encoding: gzip
Referer: https://...
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
Cookie: ...
Cookie2: $Version="1"

(no content)

1347463214.24724 ===   END HTTP REQUEST ===

1347463216.13134 === GOT RESPONSE HDRS ===
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 15:20:08 GMT
Accept-Ranges: bytes
...
Server: Lotus-Domino
Content-Length: 377806
Content-Type: application/octet-stream
Last-Modified: Fri, 07 Sep 2012 06:25:33 GMT
Client-Peer: ...
Client-Response-Num: 1
Client-SSL-Cert-Issuer: ...
Client-SSL-Cert-Subject: ...
Client-SSL-Cipher: DES-CBC3-SHA
Client-SSL-Socket-Class: IO::Socket::SSL

(no content)
1347463216.48305 === Got response data chunk resp size = 4096 ===

1347463337.98131 === BEGIN HTTP RESPONSE ===
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 15:20:08 GMT
Accept-Ranges: bytes
...
Server: Lotus-Domino
Content-Length: 377806
Content-Type: application/octet-stream
Last-Modified: Fri, 07 Sep 2012 06:25:33 GMT
Client-Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 15:22:17 GMT
Client-Peer: ...
Client-Response-Num: 1
Client-SSL-Cert-Issuer: ...
Client-SSL-Cert-Subject: ...
Client-SSL-Cipher: DES-CBC3-SHA
Client-SSL-Socket-Class: IO::Socket::SSL

PK\3\4\24\0\6\0\10\0\0\0!\0\x88\xBC\21Xi\2\0\0\x84\22\0\0\23\0\10\2[Content_Types].xml \xA2...
(+ 377294 more bytes not shown)

===   END HTTP RESPONSE ===

During the “Got response data chunk” and “BEGIN HTTP RESPONSE” messages, you can see a 121.5 seconds gap. I have the feeling that sometimes LWP::UserAgent hangs for two minutes after having received the full amount of data.

Do you have any clue where that could come from?

EDIT here is a screenshot in Wireshark : I get the FIN/ACK message after 120 seconds…

Wireshark Excerpt

Thanks

Solution

  • Thanks to Borodin's answer I found a way to fix it:

    I modified the response_data event handler sub this way:

    if($res->header('Content-Length') == length($res->content)) {
    die "OK"; # Got whole data, not waiting for server to end the communication channel.
}
return 1; # In other cases make sure the handler is called for subsequent chunks

    And then if X-Died header is equal to OK then ignore errors in the caller.