beware of libnet overwriting the HEAD, GET, & POST commands when you install it - move them from '/usr/bin/' to '/usr/local/bin/' before installing
check the archives for more info on this http://archive.develooper.com/macosx%40perl.org/ Robin On Thursday, October 3, 2002, at 04:06 AM, Dan Sugalski wrote: > At 12:00 PM -0700 10/2/02, Nathan Herring wrote: >> Anyone know of a scriptable/automatable solution to using CPAN from >> behind a firewall? It just uses OSX's ftp, which doesn't really look >> at the proxy info in the Network control panel. I've been manually >> using IE to download patches and install them. > > Get and install libnet by hand. It has provisions for handling many > types of firewalls, and once you have it CPAN.pm will use it instead of > the base FTP executable.
