Default to the secure option is fair

But the case here is that the "secure option" is being enforced.
If I want to download www.cpan.org/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz, I'm forced to do it securely.
A fresh build of perl (from source) has no capability (AFAICS) to perform such a secure download.
Therefore the cpan utility is initially reliant on some external utility that is capable of a secure download - and there's no guarantee that such an "external utility" exists.
If no such external utility is available to cpan, then cpan is unusable on a fresh build of perl, no matter how you configure it.
That's a rather annoying situation to be in - especially if, as Anonymous Monk asserts elsewhere in this thread, it's a situation created by the cpan.org webserver.

Cheers,
Rob

In reply to Re^5: HSTS policy breaks cpan utility on Windows by syphilis
in thread HSTS policy breaks cpan utility on Windows by syphilis

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