Hi,
On Ubuntu: 
$ wget http://www.cpan.org/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
URL transformed to HTTPS due to an HSTS policy
--2019-11-21 21:21:48--  https://www.cpan.org/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz

[download]
Who is imposing that "HSTS policy" ? (It seems to have sprung up in the last day or two.)
That file, which is the first thing that my cpan utility tries to download whenever I try to install a module, can no longer be downloaded (by me, at least) over HTTP protocol ... and on Windows there's nothing automatically available to the cpan utility that can perform HTTPS downloads.

I've installed wget into MSYS2 on the Windows machine (as it's capable of https downloads).
How do I configure the cpan utility to use wget ?
And how do I specify that https://www.cpan.org/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz should be downloaded, not http://www.cpan.org/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz .

Cheers,
Rob

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