Corion's idea is a great one.

The code 500 means server terminated the connection. Just as another diagnostic test, without using Perl or perl -MCPAN, just use FTP to see if you can download the file. If you type>ftp ftp.perl.org, you should get a response. The user name is "anonymous" and the password is just a carriage return. Then do a "dir" and you will get a response. If you can get this far, then the proxy is not the problem. If you can't get this far, then some kind of firewall/proxy issue is in play, but you have simplified the question for your sys admin and have taken Perl completely out of the equation.

In reply to Re^2: ftp problem on cpan client on windows with strawberry perl by Marshall
in thread ftp problem on cpan client on windows with strawberry perl by targetsmart

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