PPM Fails to Connect

vegasjoe has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

PPM is failing because it does not know the NTLM protocol. How can I get around this problem?

I have set the following ENV vars:

HTTP_proxy
HTTP_proxy_user
HTTP_proxy_pass
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I called our network infrastructure engineer he sent me back the error the proxy server is logging.

Client-Warning: Unsupported authentication scheme 'ntlm'"
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ppm> install XML-SAX-Simple
Error: Failed to download URL http://crazyinsomniac.perlmonk.org/perl/
+ppm/5.8/XML-SAX-Simple.ppd: 407 Proxy Authentication Required
ppm>
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Is my only recourse to download all the modules manually?

thank you

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Re: PPM Fails to Connect by runrig (Abbot) on Mar 08, 2007 at 23:23 UTC
Is LWP::Authen::Ntlm installed (I thought it came with ActiveState Perl)? Update: Hmm, then you'd still need Authen::NTLM, which doesn't seem to come with ActiveState Perl (at least not in my recently installed version), but does seem to be available from ActiveState's ppm repository.	[reply]
Re: PPM Fails to Connect by marto (Cardinal) on Mar 08, 2007 at 22:43 UTC
Every month we need to change the password on our Windows accounts at work. Having done this I need to change the Environment variable (via the method described in the PPM faq, I am on Windows 2000 by the way ), then I have to log off and back on again for some weird reason. Perhaps it does not export the changes. I am not sure if this will resolve your problem. Cheers Martin	[reply]
Re: PPM Fails to Connect by bart (Canon) on Mar 09, 2007 at 11:30 UTC
Even if you get PPM to work, you still have another tiny problem: that repository no longer exists. Try it for yourself: http://crazyinsomniac.perlmonk.org/perl/ppm/5.8/XML-SAX-Simple.ppd You should be able to remove it from your repository list in PPM, try `help rep` at the command prompt for the instructions. (I have no access to any copy of PPM at this moment.)	[reply] [d/l]