Hello there

I am not sure if the problem I am having depends on Apache or on the CPAN module, so I decided to post this question. In case this would result in an off-topic I apologize in advance.

I am trying to install a module on a Solaris machine using the CPAN module. Since this machine sits on a private network and has no routing to the internet, I configured an Apache proxy service on my own workstation and configured the CPAN module on the first host to use it.

Well, what happens is that when I try to install something I got weird errors because of a truncated download or corrupted gzip file. For example:

bash-2.03# /usr/local/bin/perl -MCPAN -e shell
 
cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.61)
ReadLine support available (try 'install Bundle::CPAN')
 
cpan> install XML::Simple
CPAN: Storable loaded ok
CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded ok
Fetching with LWP:
  ftp://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/mirror/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
Transfer truncated: only 79338 out of 79652 bytes received
 
cpan>

[download]

On the apache side everything seems right:

nalog - - [01/Mar/2004:12:44:52 +0100] "GET ftp://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/mirror/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz HTTP/1.1" 200 79338 "-" "libwww-perl/5.76"

Did anybody solve the same problem? Anything I can do on the CPAN.pm configuration? Or on the Apache side?

Ciao
--bronto

The very nature of Perl to be like natural language--inconsistant and full of dwim and special cases--makes it impossible to know it all without simply memorizing the documentation (which is not complete or totally correct anyway).
--John M. Dlugosz

In reply to [OT/MAYBE] CPAN module and apache proxy by bronto

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