Hi Felix and Timothy and others, Thank you very much for your advice. I have done the required. unfortunately as the machine i have installed Perl is on the Server of our workplace, i am unable to do a restart. Is restarting after assigning the HTTP_proxy variable essential or should the problem be solved without a restart. I am still unable to connect to the URL ppm is trying to connect when i do ppm search.
It gives me a message: "Error connecting to 'http;//ppm.Activestate.com/cgibin/PPM/ppmserver.pl?urn:/PPM Server'. I am still stuck with this...please help anyone. Cheers manoj -----Original Message----- From: Felix Geerinckx [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 1:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: need help with PPM on Tue, 16 Apr 2002 07:29:49 GMT, Manoj Jacob wrote: > I started exploring Activestate Perl very recently. And I wanted to > install some modules. So I gave the command PPM Search to look for the > modules available. But then I get an error message saying there is > difficulty in connecting to the URL. I guess i know what the problem > is. It could be because we have a Proxy server. So what changes should > i do to acheive ppm search successully. If i need to make changes in > the environment variables (which environment variables are we talking > about) how do i do it ?? > > I am working on a Windows NT 4.0. Please help me, i feel completely > stuck. ActivePerl comes with extensive HTML documentation, which should be installed in your Start menu.I this documentation you will find a chapter on 'Using PPM'. From the section 'PPM, Proxies and Firewalls', relevant for Windows NT: Right click on "My Computer", click on "Properties", select the "Environment" tab. These are your environment settings. Make the following changes: Add the setting HTTP_proxy, with your proxy name as the value (you must include "http://";), followed by a colon and the proxy port, if applicable; e.g., "http://proxy:8080"; If you require a user name and/or password to access your proxy, add the settings HTTP_proxy_user and HTTP_proxy_pass, with your user name and password as the respective values. -- felix -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
