Re^3: running perl scripts behind a university wireless network

This is what it says on trying to use ppm Searching in Active Repositories Error: No valid repositories: Error: 500 Can't connect to ppm.ActiveState.com:80 (connect: Unknown error) Error: 500 Can't connect to ppm.ActiveState.com:80 (connect: Unknown error)

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Re^4: running perl scripts behind a university wireless network by shmem (Chancellor) on Sep 15, 2007 at 21:59 UTC
Seems like you should contact the wireless network administrators and ask them about the proxy settings needed to contact `ppm.ActiveState.com:80`. Obviously you can't contact that server directly. Since I don't run Windows, I can't tell you where those proxy settings have to be set for `ppm`. Maybe another monk jumps in. --shmem _($_=" "x(1<<5)."?\n".q·/)Oo. G°\ / /\_¯/(q / ---------------------------- \__(m.====·.(_("always off the crowd"))."· ");sub _{s./.($e="'Itrs `mnsgdq Gdbj O`qkdq")=~y/"-y/#-z/;$e.e && print}	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: running perl scripts behind a university wireless network by Errto (Vicar) on Sep 16, 2007 at 01:19 UTC
You need to enable an HTTP Proxy. PPM relies on LWP (I think) and, at any rate, will look for the environment variable `HTTP_proxy` to determine what proxy to use if any. So you'll need to set that environment variable, using either the `set` command in your command window or using the Control Panel -> System settings. The exact value you need you'll have to obtain from your university's IT people as mentioned by shmem.	[reply] [d/l] [select]