Re^2: HSTS policy breaks cpan utility on Windows

cpan> o conf urllist https://www.cpan.org

I had taken a look through MyConfig.pm, but failed to notice "urllist" and its setting.

Amusingly, that alone didn't do the trick for me on Windows because HTTP::Tiny is used as the download agent - and it's not capable of https transfers on a fresh build of perl from source.
Changing the "wget" setting to "wget" fixes that little problem.

Thanks for the assistance !!

Cheers,
Rob

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Re^3: HSTS policy breaks cpan utility on Windows by marto (Cardinal) on Nov 22, 2019 at 12:28 UTC
"Amusingly, that alone didn't do the trick for me on Windows because HTTP::Tiny is used as the download agent - and it's not capable of https transfers on a fresh build of perl from source." Ah, sorry, I didn't appreciate that this was a perl you'd built yourself. Strawberry (I've no idea about AS these days) ships with the required IO::Socket::SSL and Net::SSLeay for direct SSL/https support within HTTP::Tiny.	[reply]

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Re^3: HSTS policy breaks cpan utility on Windows
by marto (Cardinal) on Nov 22, 2019 at 12:28 UTC

"Amusingly, that alone didn't do the trick for me on Windows because HTTP::Tiny is used as the download agent - and it's not capable of https transfers on a fresh build of perl from source."

Ah, sorry, I didn't appreciate that this was a perl you'd built yourself. Strawberry (I've no idea about AS these days) ships with the required IO::Socket::SSL and Net::SSLeay for direct SSL/https support within HTTP::Tiny.

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