Hello, maybe my problem is trivial, but I cannot find an answer. I will try to explain you what is going on.

The simplest problem to explain is when I try to download a module using cpan. I always get the error:

Fetching with LWP:
 ftp://mirrors.localhost.net.ar/pub/mirrors/CPAN/authors/id/whatever
Use of uninitialized value in hash element at /Library/Perl/5.8.6/LWP/
+Protocol.pm line 53.
Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at /Library/Perl/5.8
+.6/LWP/Protocol.pm line 56.
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /Library/
+Perl/5.8.6/LWP/Protocol.pm line 36.
Use of uninitialized value in string eq at /Library/Perl/5.8.6/LWP/Use
+rAgent.pm line 199.

[download]

The extracted lines where the errors come from are:

Protocol.pm
line 53     my $ic = $ImplementedBy{$scheme};
line 56    return '' unless $scheme =~ /^([.+\-\w]+)$/;  # check valid
+ URL schemes
line 36    my $impclass = LWP::Protocol::implementor($scheme) or

UserAgent.pm
line 199        if ($scheme eq "https") {

[download]

So, it seems that I have a problem with the assignement of a value to the variable $scheme. Other scripts that use LWP::UserAgent and LWP::Protocol give me the same type of errors, but I write down more explicitely the problem with the cpan modules because they should be more familiar for you.

All I could find about $scheme had something to do with setting or using proxies, is that true? I have no proxies set in my configuration, or they have been assigned automatically by my ISP, I don't know about that.

So, some questions arise: what can I do to solve that problem? Where I can find more information? Where I should start reading? What is that $scheme variable?

Thank you in advance for your help.

Roger

In reply to Uninitialized $scheme variable in LWP::Protocol and LWP::UserAgent problem by rogerd

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