On Wed, 03 May 2000 09:32:48 +0200, Henning Michael Møller-Nielsen
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Ah - Mike's mail reminded me that I had downloaded it manually from his
>site. I just got so used to PPM... Well, it's for a different installation
>than my machine, but i did a manual trace on PPM and noticed that it went
>looking for http://www.activestate.com/Packages/win32-driveinfo.ppd, which
>redirects to
>http://www.activestate.com/ppmpackages/5.005/win32-driveinfo.ppd which just
>gives an error which is not valid XML...
>
>I know it's almost like volunteering, but shouldn't there be a better error
>handling of this in PPM? Or has that already been made in the PPM version
>that comes with Perl 5.6?
It doesn't happen with 5.6 because PPM now uses SOAP to communicate with
the repository. So the missing file will be handled inside the protocol
and not by a missing page on the webserver. I assume that changed
handling of redirected pages are causing this grief.
-Jan
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