Truth be told, the periodic problems with cpan.org are what led to the addition of the [kobe://] tag, which does pretty much what you asked for. It behaves like the [cpan://] tag only it triggers a search on the University of Winnipeg's mirror instead.

I chose to use a separate tag in hopes that cpan.org would eventually get things worked out. Until then, I've been trying to post links like this:

Perhaps MIME::Lite (alt) would help.

FWIW, the [kobe://] tag was announced in this node, along with a few others. (And, yes, the documentation has recently been updated.)

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P.S. Yes, the guy's name is Kobes. There was an accident involving email and a pair of editorial scissors. Shouldn't have run with them. Sorry.)

P.P.S. I'm a bit surprised no one mentioned it earlier in the thread. What's up with that?

Thanks, I didn't know about this tag (and apparently most others didn't either). I think it would still be better to change the link in the CPAN:// tag until that search gets faster. I mean, that's the whole point of these abstractions, right? It can always be changed back.

update: oh, well there's other mirrors that allow searching right? then for the pmdevers, scratch option 1, go for 2, I becon you.

 
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But the mirrors are for downloads only. I want the links to go to a place where I can read the documentation and learn about a module without installing it, which is that these search engines let you do.

However, it seems to have died now. Here is a news release about it.

At YAPC::EU Brian Ingerson was talking about his plan for NAPC a type of Napster for CPAN. I don't know if there has been any work done on it however.

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John.

UPDATE: I am aware that the two are the same. Reread the text above; I cannot think of a simjpler way to phrase it.