[Simpletest-support] SimpleBrowser hanging due to content-length

[Roger Y. <ry...@gm...>]

Hello,

I am attempting to communicate with a web-based RFID door controller.  All
operations via PHP to the unit's IP address hang, but it works in a browser.

When I use SimpleBrowser, it will hang until ConnectionTimeout and then
work.  So it takes 15 seconds (default timeout) to get a response:

  echo $browser->get('192.168.1.240');

This gives me a response back in 1 second.

  $browser->setConnectionTimeout(1);
  echo $browser->get('192.168.1.240');

I am getting all the contents of the page returned, but SimpleBrowser isn't
happy.  It thinks everything is failing and I can't proceed:

getURL() = http://192.168.1.240/ACT_ID_1
getHeaders() = POST /ACT_ID_1 HTTP/1.0
Host: 192.168.1.240
Connection: close
Content-Length: 43
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
username=abc&pwd=123&logId=20090416
getTransportError() = Nothing fetched
getResponseCode() = 0

So, the timeout gets triggered, and I get a response finally but it assume
failure.

I determined it was content-length related due to this post I found at
https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=51330

This operation hangs forever:

$content = file_get_contents('http://192.168.1.240');

But this one returns immediately because I give it a maximum length of
content to expect:

$content = file_get_contents('http://192.168.1.240/', NULL, NULL, 0, 1000);

Is there a way/fix to set SimpleBrowser to respond/react appropriately and
not hang/timeout?  Like a header or something I can set?

Thanks,
Roger