Hi folks, I'm trying to access a local CPAN mirror over FTP and am unable to connect. cpan> reload index CPAN: Storable loaded ok Going to read /.cpan/Metadata Database was generated on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 05:31:07 GMT CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded ok Fetching with LWP: ftp://cpan.arrow.com/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz LWP failed with code[401] message[Login incorrect.] Fetching with Net::FTP: ftp://cpan.arrow.com/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz Couldn't login on cpan.arrow.com at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.0/CPAN.pm line 2178. Fetching with LWP: http://cpan.arrow.com/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz ^CCaught SIGINT
The http call fails because we don't have port 80 open (I might be able to fix that later), but ftp works fine from a command line. It looks to me like it's trying to login as "anonymous" even though I have configured "username" and "password" through the CPAN shell. Does anyone know if there's a way around this other than hacking CPAN.pm which I wouldn't be crazy about doing? TIA richf
