On 3 Jan 2002 20:27:17 -0000, Becka wrote: >Thanks Ilya.. I did install locally. I can't understand quite what I should >have done with the firewall. We don't have a proxy, but the documentation on >Firewalls, Proxies, and PPM, really only refers to proxies. I tried using the >firewall's address in the suggested environment variables, but that had no >effect
This is getting OT, but we should get this out of the way *somewhere* once, or people will keep stumbling over this for ever and ever. So... how do you browse the web? Do you need to use an external proxy, or not? If you don't, then LWP (thus CPAN and PPM) won't need a proxy to get through, either. A firewall is a program that sits between your internal network (could be your own PC) and the connection to internet. It will inspect, and regulate, network traffic to/from the outside world. One of the important things it looks at, is the port number that the packets are aimed at. The standard port number for HTTP is 80. If that port is blocked, from the inside to the outside, then you'll have to use a proxy. If, for example, the port 8080 isn't blocked, then an external proxy at that address will do. (Commonly, ports under 1024 may well be blocked, but not port numbers above it). If you do have an internal proxy, which the firewall allows to get through, then you can use the address of that proxy. If it's on your own computer, it can easily have the address 127.0.0.1:8080. The protocol is "http", so the complete proxy address for the environment variable then is "http://127.0.0.1:8080";. All I can do is: if your browser works, just check out the proxy settings that the browser uses, and copy them into your environment variable. -- Bart.
