Re: PPM and 'mismatched tag at line 9, column 2...'

[Henning Michael Møller-Nielsen]

At 19:29 04-05-00 -0700, Jan Dubois wrote:
>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.

I believe you are right.

But couldn't someone at ActiveState change this handling so that PPM with
5xx still would work? We are having a lot of problems because of this
error, especially when trying to install modules not present on the
ActiveState repository - we now have to specify the location explicitly,
which is quite a hassle with our clients.

/Henning


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