(Andreas J. Koenig) wrote:
On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 18:33:03 -0800, Tyler MacDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> OK, I've figured out what went wrong: 0.27_06 isn't on
> www.cpan.org/pub/CPAN yet. However, *how* it went wrong is truly bizzare:
> LWP returned a "404 not found" error, yet somehow I still ended up with a
> .tar.gz and .tar file, and CPAN thinking it had actually downloaded
> something. This looks like a bug in CPAN.pm, both in the 1.7 version that's
> distributed with 5.8.7, and the latest release, 1.83.
Thanks, fixed in my copy. Both curl and lynx could make CPAN.pm
believe that a download actually succeeded although it didn't. For
curl the fix was easy by adding a few commandline switches. For lynx I
had to apply some heuristics.
I'll note I've also seen Net::FTP on two different occasions spuriously
throwing 404s out when it should have been something else. This 404
bubbles up through LWP.
Adam K
