retry to read the sent request a few times if it doesn't exist the first time

    }

    if(@protocol) {

        # verify the sent request

        my @out = loadarray($SERVERIN);

        my @out;

        my $retry = 5;

        # Verify the sent request. Sometimes, like in test 513 on some hosts,

        # curl will return back faster than the server writes down the request

        # to its file, so we might need to wait here for a while to see if the

        # file gets written a bit later.

        while($retry--) {

            @out = loadarray($SERVERIN);

            if(!$out[0]) {

                # nothing there yet, wait a while and try again

                sleep(1);

            }

        }

        # what to cut off from the live protocol sent by curl

        my @strip = getpart("verify", "strip");