Thanks, I was doing it under strictness of the office web firewall, let me try again when am out of the office proxy way
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Jefferson Kirkland <numberw...@gmail.com>wrote: > From the following line: > > LWP failed with code[500] message[Can't connect to > cpan.strawberryperl.com:80 <http://cpan.strawberryperl.com/> < > http://cpan.strawberryperl.com/> (connect: > timeout)] > > it looks like LWP is unable to connect to the site to download the modules. > You need to make sure your connected to the internet. Also, if you are, > check your firewall and ensure your not blocking access to the application. > > Regards, > > Jeff > > > > On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 2:05 AM, Leo Susanto <leosusa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 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 <http://cpan.strawberryperl.com/> (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 <http://cpan.strawberryperl.com/> (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 <http://cpan.strawberryperl.com/> (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/ > > > > > > >