Re: Re: Re: CPAN - Post Installation Modification & Mirror Sites

I've never heard of a Perl mirror, or really anything in the unix world, giving people trouble over agent strings. Actually I do a lot of my browsing with "Aighearach was here" as my agent string, without trouble.

Do you have an example of a CPAN mirror or other Perl site that has a restriction of this sort?

For the most part I do agree with you that HTTP is a better bet if you don't know what FTP servers are good. Personally, I just lean heavy on the NASA server, and use an HTTP as a backup.
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Re: Re: Re: Re: CPAN - Post Installation Modification & Mirror Sites by bobn (Chaplain) on Jul 06, 2003 at 05:28 UTC
The user agent string issue arises when you are behind a web proxy (e.g. trying to use CPAN from work), and the outbound proxy in the corporate firewall cares about the user agent string. You're expected to use a recent version of NS or IE (or Mozilla). There is a separate allowed UAS reserveed for programs fetching stuff from the web, but it's not the one the LWP gives out. I agree that the mirrors typically don't care. --Bob Niederman, http://bob-n.com	[reply]

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by bobn (Chaplain) on Jul 06, 2003 at 05:28 UTC

The user agent string issue arises when you are behind a web proxy (e.g. trying to use CPAN from work), and the outbound proxy in the corporate firewall cares about the user agent string. You're expected to use a recent version of NS or IE (or Mozilla). There is a separate allowed UAS reserveed for programs fetching stuff from the web, but it's not the one the LWP gives out.

I agree that the mirrors typically don't care.

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