From acef63e2e3e629da8b6825f33e6de7bf6bcc4fc2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tom Clegg <tom@curoverse.com>
Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 14:36:50 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] 2673: Use _method=GET hack to avoid combining request body
 with GET method (but still support parameters too long to fit in a query
 string).

---
 sdk/perl/lib/Arvados.pm         | 2 +-
 sdk/perl/lib/Arvados/Request.pm | 9 +++++++--
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sdk/perl/lib/Arvados.pm b/sdk/perl/lib/Arvados.pm
index 31258f5172..d5eca9035e 100644
--- a/sdk/perl/lib/Arvados.pm
+++ b/sdk/perl/lib/Arvados.pm
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ environment variable, or C<arvados>
 Protocol scheme. Default: C<ARVADOS_API_PROTOCOL_SCHEME> environment
 variable, or C<https>
 
-=item apiToken
+=item authToken
 
 Authorization token. Default: C<ARVADOS_API_TOKEN> environment variable
 
diff --git a/sdk/perl/lib/Arvados/Request.pm b/sdk/perl/lib/Arvados/Request.pm
index 0faed28d1a..07ca763d2b 100644
--- a/sdk/perl/lib/Arvados/Request.pm
+++ b/sdk/perl/lib/Arvados/Request.pm
@@ -32,11 +32,16 @@ sub process_request
 {
     my $self = shift;
     my %req;
-    $req{$self->{'method'}} = $self->{'uri'};
+    my %content;
+    my $method = $self->{'method'};
+    if ($method eq 'GET' || $method eq 'HEAD') {
+        $content{'_method'} = $method;
+        $method = 'POST';
+    }
+    $req{$method} = $self->{'uri'};
     $self->{'req'} = new HTTP::Request (%req);
     $self->{'req'}->header('Authorization' => ('OAuth2 ' . $self->{'authToken'})) if $self->{'authToken'};
     $self->{'req'}->header('Accept' => 'application/json');
-    my %content;
     my ($p, $v);
     while (($p, $v) = each %{$self->{'queryParams'}}) {
         $content{$p} = (ref($v) eq "") ? $v : JSON::encode_json($v);
-- 
2.30.2