in reply to CPAN search site acting up lately?

If you've uploaded anything to PAUSE this week you might want to check it. I uploaded a new version of a module on sunday night, and when I try to download it now I get a borked file with the extension tar.tar and nothing in it. The readme is displayed on CPAN OK though, so I'm pretty sure it wasn't my upload that did it.

Update - it definitely wasn't my upload file, I just downloaded a similarly borked copy of Inline. Anyone else having problems?

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Re^2: CPAN search site acting up lately?
by PodMaster (Abbot) on Jan 20, 2005 at 20:07 UTC
    Don't use your browser to download files. Try wget or similar. This type of thing has happened before where CPAN doesn't send something like application/content-stream for the Content-Type and the browser goes ahead and ungzip's the file.

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