I have a typical Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 3 box and I am trying to get CPAN working. The Huge Corp where I work blocks all FTP, so I cannot use FTP and I am trying to get the CPAN module to use ONLY HTTP. The changes to the conf I make dont seem to work. My config options include:
urllist http://mirrors.kernel.org/cpan/ ftp_proxy (null) http_proxy (my http proxy FQDN) In spite of this configuration, CPAN.pm complains about a malforned urllist and never tries HTTP and just keeps flailing away to try to connect to ftp.perl.org via ftp, which never succeeds: Trying with /usr/bin/wget -O - to get ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz --14:33:30-- ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz => `- Resolving ftp.perl.org... done. Connecting to ftp.perl.org[64.74.207.33]:21... connected. Logging in as anonymous ... Error in server greeting. Retrying. 1) Is this some kind of RedHat nonsense? When I invoke perl -MCPAN -e shell it reports CPAN::Config options from /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/CPAN/Config.pm but is the RedHat perl 5.8.0 install broken? 2) What is malforned about my urllist? It looks fine. Thanks, it would be nice to get CPAN.pm working through our http-only firewall. -W Sanders http://wsanders.net __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
