--- a/perl.t
+++ b/perl.t
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ use strict;
 
 use Test::More;
 
+use Socket qw/ CRLF /;
+
 BEGIN { use FindBin; chdir($FindBin::Bin); }
 
 use lib 'lib';
@@ -21,7 +23,7 @@ use Test::Nginx;
 select STDERR; $| = 1;
 select STDOUT; $| = 1;
 
-my $t = Test::Nginx->new()->has(qw/http perl rewrite/)->plan(1)
+my $t = Test::Nginx->new()->has(qw/http perl rewrite/)->plan(7)
 	->write_file_expand('nginx.conf', <<'EOF');
 
 %%TEST_GLOBALS%%
@@ -57,6 +59,28 @@ http {
                 return OK;
             }';
         }
+
+        location /body {
+            perl 'sub {
+                use warnings;
+                use strict;
+
+                my $r = shift;
+
+                if ($r->has_request_body(\&post)) {
+                    return OK;
+                }
+
+                return HTTP_BAD_REQUEST;
+
+                sub post {
+                    my $r = shift;
+                    $r->send_http_header;
+                    $r->print("body: ", $r->request_body, "\n");
+                    $r->print("file: ", $r->request_body_file, "\n");
+                }
+            }';
+        }
     }
 }
 
@@ -68,4 +92,68 @@ EOF
 
 like(http_get('/'), qr/TEST/, 'perl response');
 
+like(http(
+	'GET /body HTTP/1.0' . CRLF
+	. 'Host: localhost' . CRLF
+	. 'Content-Length: 10' . CRLF . CRLF
+	. '1234567890'
+), qr/body: 1234567890/, 'perl body preread');
+
+like(http(
+	'GET /body HTTP/1.0' . CRLF
+	. 'Host: localhost' . CRLF
+	. 'Content-Length: 10' . CRLF . CRLF,
+	sleep => 0.1,
+	body => '1234567890'
+), qr/body: 1234567890/, 'perl body late');
+
+TODO: {
+local $TODO = 'broken' if $t->has_version('1.3.9');
+
+like(http(
+	'GET /body HTTP/1.0' . CRLF
+	. 'Host: localhost' . CRLF
+	. 'Content-Length: 10' . CRLF . CRLF
+	. '12345',
+	sleep => 0.1,
+	body => '67890'
+), qr/body: 1234567890/, 'perl body split');
+
+}
+
+TODO: {
+local $TODO = 'not yet';
+
+like(http(
+	'GET /body HTTP/1.1' . CRLF
+	. 'Host: localhost' . CRLF
+	. 'Connection: close' . CRLF
+	. 'Transfer-Encoding: chunked' . CRLF . CRLF
+	. 'a' . CRLF
+	. '1234567890' . CRLF
+	. '0' . CRLF . CRLF
+), qr/body: 1234567890/, 'perl body chunked');
+
+like(http(
+	'GET /body HTTP/1.1' . CRLF
+	. 'Host: localhost' . CRLF
+	. 'Connection: close' . CRLF
+	. 'Transfer-Encoding: chunked' . CRLF . CRLF,
+	sleep => 0.1,
+	body => 'a' . CRLF . '1234567890' . CRLF . '0' . CRLF . CRLF
+), qr/body: 1234567890/, 'perl body chunked late');
+
+like(http(
+	'GET /body HTTP/1.1' . CRLF
+	. 'Host: localhost' . CRLF
+	. 'Connection: close' . CRLF
+	. 'Transfer-Encoding: chunked' . CRLF . CRLF
+	. 'a' . CRLF
+	. '12345',
+	sleep => 0.1,
+	body => '67890' . CRLF . '0' . CRLF . CRLF
+), qr/body: 1234567890/, 'perl body chunked split');
+
+}
+
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