Re: So what's the deal with Perl/Tk on win32?

OK, I stand corrected.

I am abliged and properly humbled... (bowing head & backing away)

I am but a bug, Holiness.

I tried again with ActivePerl. Being that I am behind a nasty firewall, I downloaded the ppd file directly & ran ppm locally.

Once I did this, it worked like a charm. But of course I have had many strange results along the way to get to this point.

As always it is the journey that matters, not the destination, save only as the beginning of the next.

Wait! This isn't a Parachute, this is a Backpack!

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Re: Re: So what's the deal with Perl/Tk on win32? by dws (Chancellor) on Mar 22, 2001 at 23:46 UTC
Don't feel bad. People stumble into this one all of the time. What you're probably running into is this: your browser knows what about your firewall/proxy server, but Perl scripts (include PPM) do not. The (poorly documented) trick is to set the environment variable `HTTP_PROXY` to point to your proxy server. E.g., `HTTP_PROXY=http://stupidfirewall.mycompany.com:8080/` LWP (LWP::UserAgent:env_proxy() in specific) will detect this setting, and use it when making HTTP requests.	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re: Re: So what's the deal with Perl/Tk on win32?
by dws (Chancellor) on Mar 22, 2001 at 23:46 UTC

What you're probably running into is this: your browser knows what about your firewall/proxy server, but Perl scripts (include PPM) do not.

The (poorly documented) trick is to set the environment variable HTTP_PROXY to point to your proxy server. E.g., HTTP_PROXY=http://stupidfirewall.mycompany.com:8080/ LWP (LWP::UserAgent:env_proxy() in specific) will detect this setting, and use it when making HTTP requests.

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