I thought the CPAN server is just an FTP server, isn't it? I would just poke around inside the CPAN mirror and do some reverse engineering :-D


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The CPAN.pm module provides a standard interface to CPAN. There is a Defaultsite variable which can be overrided with your own FTP/CPAN server... I haven't tried this but it would certainly be an interesting little weekend project.
use CPAN;
$CPAN::Defaultsite = "ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/CPAN";

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In reply to Re: Personal CPAN server by Roger
in thread Personal CPAN server by dragonchild

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