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in reply to Re: libwww-perl, POE and Unicode
in thread libwww-perl, POE and Unicode

the new test that has been added in HTTP::Message is this:
sub { utf8::downgrade($_[0], 1) or Carp::croak("HTTP::Message content must be bytes") }

Isn't suddenly deciding to die on something which previous releases didn't even test for a bit, erm, extreme? The thinking, technically speaking, may be completely correct, of course ...