Hi

Some distributions on CPAN bundle and link to html files, like the module Sepia which links to ./pod/Sepia.html , which is dead now

I can manually browse

https://metacpan.org/release/SEANO/Sepia-0.992/source/Sepia.html

but I can only see the HTML source and not the rendered version.

I suppose all this used to "work" on old cpan.org

Is there a trick to get this at least manually fixed?

I seem to remember there was one on github by changing the url.

edit

I'm not sure if this problem is particular to this distribution or also others on MetaCPAN

UPDATE: clarification

This question is about if

• metacpan.org is backwards compatible to cpan.org
• there is a path ( /source/ , /raw/ etc.) to fix this
• metacpan.org needs a feature request

It's not unlikely that I'm just missing a feature of metacpan here, that's why I ask.

One could probably argue that

• cpan.org's behaviour was non-standard, but there are many old threads here discussing how to add html and images to dists.
• probably this particular dist was always doing it wrongly

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