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yes i can ask that tomorrow. But I followed the instructions on here and i think i found out? https://www.techwalla.com/articles/how-to-find-my-http-proxy-port-number Now the error msg is "Couldn't get http://search.cpan.org/403 Forbidden" (but i actually can access the page without perl)
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Re^5: "Proxy, LWP can't connect to local host"
by Corion (Patriarch) on Jul 10, 2017 at 14:26 UTC

    So most likely, it is your proxy that tells you that the page you're trying to request is forbidden. Maybe you need to supply additional credentials to your proxy.

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