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Only started with Perl4 and Perl5 in 1995. I was doing AWK etc for 12 years before that, and resisted switching. I've been doing OO since before C++ hit bigtime, with Objective-C and SmallTalk, so I really like the (no longer new) Perl5 OO style; and the Lispish Map style is also an old friend. What do I hack with Perl? All data that passes my way; systems monitoring scripts at $DayJob, weather data at night, and I cheat on NPR word puzzles. Member: Boston.pm.org [pm.org] BLU.org [blu.org] /. LinkedIn [linkedin.com]
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Wednesday April 19, 2006
04:28 PM
LWP::Simple, HEAD method, Firewalls and http_proxy
I decided I needed to try setting up CPAN::Mini at work. Not a problem, only missing File::HomeDir and Compress::Zlib on my development system which I should have anyway.
But the minicpan script failed with message
unable to contact the remote mirror
After verifying that it was attempting to use the $ENV{http_proxy} standard (by adding debug lines to the CPAN::Mini module), I guessed that I needed to comment out the lines in CPAN::Mini::new():
# croak "unable to contact the remote mirror"
# unless LWP::Simple::head($self->{remote});
since HEAD isn't always as well supported or tested
I already have a bug report submitted at rt.cpan
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Or is it a BUG?"
"Let's call it an accidental feature. :-)"
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Ouch,,, (Score:1)
I guess it never occured to me that something as stable and mature as LWP wouldn't Just Work with normal features.