in reply to PPM/CPAN connection issues

In an effort to debug, try
lwp-request -m get -USsed http://ppm.activestate.com/CPAN/authors ht +tp://cpan.perl.org/authors

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Re^2: PPM/CPAN connection issues
by technojosh (Priest) on Aug 18, 2011 at 21:16 UTC
    Thanks for the response. See below for the output from your suggestion

    GET http://ppm.activestate.com/CPAN/authors User-Agent: lwp-request/6.00 libwww-perl/6.02 500 Can't connect to ppm.activestate.com:80 (Bad hostname) Content-Type: text/plain Client-Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 21:13:37 GMT Client-Warning: Internal response GET http://cpan.perl.org/authors User-Agent: lwp-request/6.00 libwww-perl/6.02 500 Can't connect to cpan.perl.org:80 (Bad hostname) Content-Type: text/plain Client-Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 21:13:39 GMT Client-Warning: Internal response
        This didn't work. I just get the same errors I mentioned above (the 404 errors).

        Although I got a solution that worked below, I'd *rather* get the settings correct so I can just use the PPM gui. It must be something simple (right?, right?) since I can access all those files/urls from this machine, just not via ppm or cpan shells.