I am not really sure what is going on here since I can get http://cpan.strawberryperl.com/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz without any problem from my computer.
Can you try getting the file using your browser first? On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 10:48 PM, Bisiigwa Godfrey <wbisii...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi there, > i have perl 5.6 on my laptop > am i want to download some modules from CPAN but all attempts i have made > have failed giving me such errors, > some help. > > C:\>perl -MCPAN -e shell > cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.9600) > Enter 'h' for help. > > cpan> install DBD::mysql > Fetching with LWP: > http://cpan.strawberryperl.com/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz > LWP failed with code[500] message[Can't connect to > cpan.strawberryperl.com:80 (c > onnect: timeout)] > Warning: no success downloading > 'C:\strawberry\cpan\sources\authors\01mailrc.txt > .gz.tmp2760'. Giving up on it. > Warning: no success downloading > 'C:\strawberry\cpan\sources\authors\01mailrc.txt > .gz.tmp2760'. Giving up on it. > As a last resort we now switch to the external ftp command > 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\ > ftp.EXE' <ftp://ftp.exe'/> > to get 'C:\strawberry\cpan\sources\authors\01mailrc.txt.gz.tmp2760'. > Doing so often leads to problems that are hard to diagnose. > If you're the victim of such problems, please consider unsetting the > ftp config variable with > o conf ftp "" > o conf commit > Fetching with LWP: > http://cpan.strawberryperl.com/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz > LWP failed with code[500] message[Can't connect to > cpan.strawberryperl.com:80 (c > onnect: timeout)] > Warning: no success downloading > 'C:\strawberry\cpan\sources\authors\01mailrc.txt > .gz.tmp2760'. Giving up on it. > Warning: no success downloading > 'C:\strawberry\cpan\sources\authors\01mailrc.txt > .gz.tmp2760'. Giving up on it. > As a last resort we now switch to the external ftp command > 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\ > ftp.EXE' <ftp://ftp.exe'/> > to get 'C:\strawberry\cpan\sources\authors\01mailrc.txt.gz.tmp2760'. > Doing so often leads to problems that are hard to diagnose. > If you're the victim of such problems, please consider unsetting the > ftp config variable with > o conf ftp "" > o conf commit > Please check, if the URLs I found in your configuration file > (http://cpan.strawberryperl.com/) are valid. The urllist can be edited. > E.g. with 'o conf urllist push ftp://myurl/' > Could not fetch authors/01mailrc.txt.gz > Fetching with LWP: > http://cpan.strawberryperl.com/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz > LWP failed with code[500] message[Can't connect to > cpan.strawberryperl.com:80 (c > onnect: timeout)] > Warning: no success downloading > 'C:\strawberry\cpan\sources\authors\01mailrc.txt > .gz.tmp2760'. Giving up on it. > Warning: no success downloading > 'C:\strawberry\cpan\sources\authors\01mailrc.txt > .gz.tmp2760'. Giving up on it. > As a last resort we now switch to the external ftp command > 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\ > ftp.EXE' <ftp://ftp.exe'/> > to get 'C:\strawberry\cpan\sources\authors\01mailrc.txt.gz.tmp2760'. > Doing so often leads to problems that are hard to diagnose. > If you're the victim of such problems, please consider unsetting the > ftp config variable with > o conf ftp "" > o conf commit > Fetching with LWP: > http://cpan.strawberryperl.com/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
