Doug, can you please take a look? David
On Aug 6, 2016 5:07 AM, "Darren Duncan" <dar...@darrenduncan.net> wrote: > For context, please see this BackPAN user directory: > > http://backpan.cpantesters.org/authors/id/G/GL/GLEACH/ > > BackPAN has permissions problems such that if one tries to download files > named *.pl, such as the handful at the end of the above file listing, a 403 > error results, eg "You don't have permission to access > /authors/id/G/GL/GLEACH/pod2indexed_html-0.1.pl on this server." > > The expected result would be a 200 response with type text/plain that > shows the source code of that file, same as when clicking on a *.meta or a > *.readme file. > > In this case, the underlying problem is that there is a Perl script that > was distributed bare a decade ago and not in a tarball, so a part of CPAN > history so done can't be viewed easily without the fix. > > As the front page for BackPAN says it is run by the PAUSE admins and > doesn't give other contact info, I'm writing modules@ to get the > attention of whomever is best to deal with this problem. > > Thank you in advance for fixing this. > > -- Darren Duncan >
