which doesn't look much like a ppd to me

When I click on that link I get: 
  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> 
- <SOFTPKG NAME="Crypt-SSLeay" VERSION="0,53,0,0">
  <TITLE>Crypt-SSLeay</TITLE> 
  <ABSTRACT>OpenSSL glue that provides LWP https support</ABSTRACT> 
  <AUTHOR>Joshua Chamas <josh (at) chamas dot com></AUTHOR> 
- <IMPLEMENTATION>
  <OS NAME="MSWin32" /> 
  <ARCHITECTURE NAME="MSWin32-x86-multi-thread-5.8" /> 
  <CODEBASE HREF="http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/x86/Crypt-SSLeay.t
+ar.gz" /> 
  <INSTALL EXEC="PPM_PERL" HREF="http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/scr
+ipts/install_ssl">install_ssl</INSTALL> 
  <PROVIDE NAME="Crypt::SSLeay" VERSION="0.51" /> 
  <PROVIDE NAME="Crypt::SSLeay::Conn" /> 
  <PROVIDE NAME="Crypt::SSLeay::CTX" /> 
  <PROVIDE NAME="Crypt::SSLeay::Err" /> 
  <PROVIDE NAME="Crypt::SSLeay::MainContext" /> 
  <PROVIDE NAME="Crypt::SSLeay::X509" /> 
  <PROVIDE NAME="Net::SSL" VERSION="2.77" /> 
  </IMPLEMENTATION>
  </SOFTPKG>

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Sometimes I've found that you have to "View Source" to see what's *really* there.

For example, when I go to the bribes ppd I get: 
OpenSSL support for LWP David Landgren (david@landgren.net)

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But when I "View Source" I see: 
<SOFTPKG NAME="Crypt-SSLeay" VERSION="0,57,0,0">
    <TITLE>Crypt-SSLeay</TITLE>
    <ABSTRACT>OpenSSL support for LWP</ABSTRACT>
    <AUTHOR>David Landgren (david@landgren.net)</AUTHOR>
    <IMPLEMENTATION>
        <OS NAME="MSWin32" />
        <ARCHITECTURE NAME="MSWin32-x86-multi-thread" />
        <CODEBASE HREF="Crypt-SSLeay-0.57-PPM56.tar.gz" />
    </IMPLEMENTATION>
    <IMPLEMENTATION>
    <OS NAME="MSWin32" />
    <ARCHITECTURE NAME="MSWin32-x86-multi-thread-5.8" />
    <CODEBASE HREF="Crypt-SSLeay-0.57-PPM58.tar.gz" />
  </IMPLEMENTATION>
  <IMPLEMENTATION>
    <OS NAME="MSWin32" />
    <ARCHITECTURE NAME="MSWin32-x86-multi-thread-5.10" />
    <CODEBASE HREF="Crypt-SSLeay-0.57-PPM510.tar.gz" />
  </IMPLEMENTATION>
</SOFTPKG>

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In both cases the ppd is valid.
Incidentally, I'm equally puzzled as to why you get that error you reported when you try to install the bribes ppm of Crypt-SSLeay. For me, ppm install http://www.bribes.org/perl/ppm/Crypt-SSLeay.ppd works fine on 5.10.

Cheers,
Rob

In reply to Re^10: ActiveState Perl 10.x and Crypt::SSLeay not installed errors on Windows 2003 by syphilis
in thread ActiveState Perl 10.x and Crypt::SSLeay not installed errors on Windows 2003 by yeah

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