Re: Failures of Net::FTP and LWP during oke testing

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 06:34:24PM -0800, Ilya Zakharevich wrote:
> A good example of the report of failure is
>   http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2009/11/msg5926497.html
> Essentially, the error message is
> 
>     Getting GP/PARI from ftp://megrez.math.u-bordeaux.fr/pub/pari/unix/
>     Cannot list (Illegal PORT command.
>     ):  at utils/Math/PariBuild.pm line 319.
> 
>     Can't fetch file with Net::FTP, now trying with LWP::UserAgent...
>     Not in this directory, trying `ftp://megrez.math.u-bordeaux.fr/pub/pari/unix/OLD/'...
> then it shows that the response via LWP for ..../OLD is empty (of type
> text/ftp-dir-listing), and shows that `ftp -pinegv' has no problem

I got the first non-Unix report with a similar failure.  See
  http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.cpan.testers/2009/11/msg6061071.html

It goes like this: =======================================================

Getting GP/PARI from ftp://megrez.math.u-bordeaux.fr/pub/pari/unix/
Not in this directory, now chdir('OLD')...
Can't use an undefined value as a symbol reference at C:/home/stro/perl5111/lib/Net/FTP/dataconn.pm line 54.

    Can't fetch file with Net::FTP, now trying with LWP::UserAgent...
    Not in this directory, trying `ftp://megrez.math.u-bordeaux.fr/pub/pari/unix/OLD/'...
    Can't fetch directory listing from ftp://megrez.math.u-bordeaux.fr/pub/pari/unix/OLD/: 500 Can't use an undefined value as a symbol reference
    Content-Type: text/plain
    Client-Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:32:57 GMT
    Client-Warning: Internal response

    500 Can't use an undefined value as a symbol reference

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Still puzzled,
Ilya