[ic] intermittent 500 error with Link.pm

[Grant]

>>>> My guess would be that that is happening when the client's connection is
>>>> broken and Apache closes its filehandles that the program is writing to.
>>>
>>>
>>> I think you're exactly right but can I handle that scenario properly in
>>> Link.pm so that a 500 is not produced?
>>
>>
>> I'm not sure.
>>
>> But what do you think it should do if not a 500? It certainly isn't a 2xx
>> result.
>>
>> The C-based vlink program that we normally use throws 500s in this situation
>> too.
>
>
> Should it be an internal server error though?  It sounds like this
> happens due to normal client activity and the server should hopefully
> be able to handle that gracefully and return a more accurate HTTP
> status code without bothering the error_log.
>
> I tried this in Link.pm but no change in error.log output:
>
> print @out or die "print: $!\n";
>
> - Grant


Can we use eval on the print line to catch this error and dump it and
return a 499?

- Grant