I would use WireShark to find out what is happening on the network layer. As your browser knows how to connect, but Perl doesn't, something in their behaviour is different. Maybe using WireShark, you can find out how their behaviour differs.

I think you've mentioned using Opera, and I also remember that Opera (Mini) has a Turbo Mode, where it uses an Opera-operated proxy. This might not show up in your general proxy settings.

Also consider whether Opera gets a different IP address for search.cpan.org than what Perl gets - Perl might end up with an unavailable mirror (sometimes) while Opera might be lucky due to longer DNS caching within the browser (instead of relying on the OS to provide "current" DNS).

In reply to Re^3: cpan & strawberry perl errors by Corion
in thread cpan & strawberry perl errors by BrowserUk

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