I would like to use the "mini CPAN" approach to deployment for private packages. That is, to have modules which are for clients hosted on a machine on the internet that is running mini CPAN. Is there an easy way to have authentication employed? e.g. Some way to authenticate and then have cpan> download the private client packages over HTTPS, and then continue downloading the "normal" public perl modules from a public CPAN site.

The optimal setup would be to do "install Bundle::ClientApp", and then have cpan find the private packages on my site, and the public packages on one of the normal CPAN mirrors.