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G'day fionbarr,

See HTTP Status Code Definitions for explanations of code[500] (and other status codes).

"CPAN down again..." was posted in the last hour: no doubt the cause of the error "when trying to run CPAN".

Update: See marto's reply to this post. CPAN being down seemed to be the most likely explanation; however, not the right explanation in this case.

-- Ken

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by marto (Cardinal) on Jul 14, 2014 at 13:25 UTC

    ppm.activestate.com is unrelated to the issues at search.cpan.org.

    Update: For clarity, only the web based search interface to cpan is having issues, this has no impact on downloading from cpan.org or any of it's hundreds of mirrors.

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      Thanks for the correction. I've updated my post. ++ (when the Vote Fairy next makes her rounds :-)

      -- Ken

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