in reply to How do I make CPAN not use LWP

The CPAN modules can be configured several ways. As for the HTTP proxy, you can do it using one of the following method:


Some other variable may interest you (proxy_user, proxy_pass). They can be modified the same way...

HTM

zejames

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Re: Re: How do I make CPAN not use LWP
by jepri (Parson) on Apr 17, 2002 at 08:13 UTC
    Your advice seems to indicate that this solution works for you. However, in complete defiance of the usual trend that posters seem to exhibit, I read the manual thoroughly and tried setting all the possible proxies, etc. There is one thing I am doing differently, however:

    I am trying to use basic authentication through the proxy. Wget handles it fine, and LWP ought to as well. My proxy line looks like this: http://user:password@192.168.0.254:8080/

    But as I was going through the source code, I found this: 

    #  > I note that although CPAN.pm can use proxies, it doesn't seem equ
+ipped to
#  > use ones that require basic autorization.

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    Anyway I finally got it to leave LWP alone by commenting out about 500 lines of code. CPAN really seems to be a candidate for "There's Got To Be A Better Way To Do It"

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      CPAN really seems to be a candidate for "There's Got To Be A Better Way To Do It"

      There might be: CPANPLUS - or so they say. I still haven't tried it myself, but even if it doesn't handle basic auth etc, this one is at least said to be possible to modify with much greater ease. Maybe it'll work better in this situation. Then agan, maybe not. :)

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      I'll agree with this. My place of work is firewalled off completely on the FTP ports but open on HTTP, I'd really like CPAN.pm to go and get the modules by HTTP but it didn't seem to want to no matter how I played with it.

      Ah well, let's hope that CPANTS is soon and as good as it's made to sound.

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      Hi,

      So, we are talking about pitfalls in CPAN? What about the fact that, when it do not find a readme file, it tries every get method (ranging from LWP to lynx --source) on every mirror on my list?

      I can't even undersstand why trying all methods, if LWP replies with 'the file is not here', then the file is not there and nothing will change y changing the access method... And why trying all mirrors?

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