Trying with "/usr/bin/links -source" to get
    ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/id/G/GB/GBARR/CHECKSUMS
ERROR at dump.c:188: Error reading from socket

Trying with "/usr/bin/links -source" to get
  ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/id/G/GB/GBARR/CHECKSUMS.gz
ERROR at dump.c:188: Error reading from socket

Trying with "/usr/bin/wget -O -" to get
    ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/id/G/GB/GBARR/CHECKSUMS
--17:00:33--  ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/id/G/GB/GBARR/CHECKSUMS
           => `-'
Resolving ftp.perl.org... 163.143.1.21
Connecting to ftp.perl.org|163.143.1.21|:21... connected.
Logging in as anonymous ...
Error in server response, closing control connection.
Retrying.

--17:00:35--  ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/id/G/GB/GBARR/CHECKSUMS
  (try: 2) => `-'
Connecting to ftp.perl.org|163.143.1.21|:21... connected.
Logging in as anonymous ...
Error in server response, closing control connection.
Retrying.

--17:00:37--  ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/id/G/GB/GBARR/CHECKSUMS
  (try: 3) => `-'
Connecting to ftp.perl.org|163.143.1.21|:21... connected.
Logging in as anonymous ...
Error in server response, closing control connection.
Retrying.