in reply to Help my IT admin unblock PPM and CPAN, please.

Can you get to CPAN/PPM urls if you use LWP::Simple::get()?

If not, try using LWP::UserAgent and setting $ua->agent( ) to the same string as your browser uses. You can find that out by visiting one of the many websites that will show you the headers your browser is sending. (eg. Like this one.)

If that let's you through, then it may give you a clue as to what needs to change.

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Re^2: Help my IT admin unblock PPM and CPAN, please.
by aplonis (Pilgrim) on Apr 22, 2010 at 14:00 UTC

    Yes, command get() from module LWP::Simple works for the these three URLs:

    • http://google.com
    • http://activestate.com
    • http://cpan.org

    I can see the HTML from all of those, no problem. I didn't need to do anything via LWP::UserAgent for that to happen.

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