in reply to cpan & strawberry perl errors

Fetching with LWP:
http://cpan.strawberryperl.com/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz

My strawberry downloads without issue, but from a different location:
Fetching with LWP: http://www.cpan.org/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
I can configure this by changing the urllist setting in /Users/me/.cpan/CPAN/MyConfig.pm

I'd try setting it to http://www.cpan.org and see if that makes any difference. It may make no difference at all, but it shouldn't take long to test.

Cheers,
Rob

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Re^2: cpan & strawberry perl errors
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Dec 31, 2014 at 00:26 UTC

    Taking out cpan.strawberryperl.com from the urllist avoids the redirect, but still the LWP get from cpan.pair.com fails with status500; but the fallback to wget succeeds:

    C:\test>cpan cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v2.05) Enter 'h' for help. cpan> o conf urllist urllist 0 [http://cpan.strawberryperl.com/] 1 [http://www.cpan.org/] Type 'o conf' to view all configuration items cpan> o conf urllist shift commit: wrote 'C:\perl5.18\perl\lib/CPAN/Config.pm' cpan> o conf urllist urllist 0 [http://www.cpan.org/] Type 'o conf' to view all configuration items cpan> reload index Fetching with LWP: http://www.cpan.org/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz LWP failed with code[500] message[Can't connect to www.cpan.org:80] Trying with c:/perl64/bin/wget.exe -O "C:\Perl5.18\cpan\sources\authors\01mail +rc.txt.gz.tmp7328" to get http://www.cpan.org/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz --2014-12-31 00:22:29-- http://www.cpan.org/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz Resolving www.cpan.org... 94.242.223.198 Connecting to www.cpan.org|94.242.223.198|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 228720 (223K) [application/x-gzip] Saving to: `C:/Perl5.18/cpan/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz.tmp7328' 100%[===============================================================>] + 228,720 --.-K/s in 0.1s 2014-12-31 00:22:30 (1.56 MB/s) - `C:/Perl5.18/cpan/sources/authors/01 +mailrc.txt.gz.tmp7328' saved [228720/228720] Fetching with LWP: http://www.cpan.org/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz LWP failed with code[500] message[Can't connect to www.cpan.org:80] Trying with c:/perl64/bin/wget.exe -O "C:\Perl5.18\cpan\sources\modules\02pack +ages.details.txt.gz.tmp7328" to get http://www.cpan.org/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz --2014-12-31 00:22:30-- http://www.cpan.org/modules/02packages.detail +s.txt.gz Resolving www.cpan.org... 94.242.223.198 Connecting to www.cpan.org|94.242.223.198|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 1615484 (1.5M) [application/x-gzip] Saving to: `C:/Perl5.18/cpan/sources/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz +.tmp7328' 100%[===============================================================>] + 1,615,484 2.11M/s in 0.7s 2014-12-31 00:22:31 (2.11 MB/s) - `C:/Perl5.18/cpan/sources/modules/02 +packages.details.txt.gz.tmp7328' saved [1615484/1615484] Fetching with LWP: http://www.cpan.org/modules/03modlist.data.gz LWP failed with code[500] message[Can't connect to www.cpan.org:80] Trying with c:/perl64/bin/wget.exe -O "C:\Perl5.18\cpan\sources\modules\03modl +ist.data.gz.tmp7328" to get http://www.cpan.org/modules/03modlist.data.gz --2014-12-31 00:22:31-- http://www.cpan.org/modules/03modlist.data.gz Resolving www.cpan.org... 94.242.223.198 Connecting to www.cpan.org|94.242.223.198|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 248 [application/x-gzip] Saving to: `C:/Perl5.18/cpan/sources/modules/03modlist.data.gz.tmp7328 +' 100%[===============================================================>] + 248 --.-K/s in 0s 2014-12-31 00:22:31 (2.55 MB/s) - `C:/Perl5.18/cpan/sources/modules/03 +modlist.data.gz.tmp7328' saved [248/248] Database was generated on Wed, 31 Dec 2014 00:20:56 GMT Updating database file ...

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