On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 04:03:43PM +0100, Chris 'BinGOs' Williams wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 03:29:48PM +0100, Martin J. Evans wrote:
> > 5. Loads of modules seem to use LWP but not support $ua->env_proxy so 
> > never spot I'm behind a firewall and hence have http_proxy env var set. 
> > Obviously these all fail in some way.
> This kind of thing is problematic. There is just no way to second guess this.
> I was testing in these circumstances up until recently myself. CPAN authors
> do make the assumption that they have full Internet access, unfortunately.

I'm inclined to treat that as a bug and quite happy to send a FAIL
report.

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