Package: libnet-upnp-perl
Version: 1.4.4-1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch upstream
[Note: this is a resubmission of the report as I think it got lost in an
unrelated problem on
my system. I cannot find the earlier report but if this is a duplicate I
apologise].
Dear Maintainer,
I recently updated my debian testing system and my DLNA applications now
sometimes crash with:
Can't call method "getcontent" without a package or object reference at
/usr/share/perl5/Net/UPnP/ControlPoint.pm line 107.
The problem occurs when calling a Net::UPnP::ControlPoint search method.
If *any* of the announcements contains a URL which does not respond to a
connection
attempt then the crash occurs.
The previous version of libnet-upnp-perl handled this.
This is a relatively common occurence on my network as I am using an SSDP proxy
to advertise
devices which are on another subnet. It is particularly annoying when the
missing device is
not the one my application is intending to use.
The patch below (to check if the HTTP post succeeded) works for me.
--- /usr/share/perl5/Net/UPnP/ControlPoint.pm.sav 2018-10-09
22:53:01.330259071 +0100
+++ /usr/share/perl5/Net/UPnP/ControlPoint.pm 2018-10-10 11:01:20.909321292
+0100
@@ -97,6 +97,7 @@
$http_req = Net::UPnP::HTTP->new();
$post_res = $http_req->post($dev_addr, $dev_port, "GET",
$dev_path, "", "");
+ next if ! $post_res;
if ($Net::UPnP::DEBUG) {
print $post_res->getstatus() . "\n";
-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (900, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_IE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL
set to en_IE.utf8), LANGUAGE=en_IE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to
en_IE.utf8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages libnet-upnp-perl depends on:
ii perl 5.26.2-7
libnet-upnp-perl recommends no packages.
libnet-upnp-perl suggests no packages.
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