RE: Installing Perl modules: ppm and Nmake don't work

On Wed, 19 Nov 2008, Wolfgang Schindler wrote:
> I'm working behind a corporate firewall with a proxy server that -
> afaik - uses dynamic IP addresses. Even with setting the http_proxy,
> http_proxy_user and http_proxy_pass environment variables (under
> Windows XP SP2), ppm is not able to reach out to ActiveState's module
> directory. When I download modules from CPAN, create the makefile
> ("perl Makefile.PL") and the use the nmake 1.5 utility - this doesn't
> work either.
>
> Have you got any idea what could be done?

You probably need to set just the http_proxy environment variable to
contain all the information:

  http_proxy=http://username:password@url:port

This is the standard format used by LWP (and PPM4).  The non-standard
http_proxy_user and http_proxy_pass variables are only used in older
PPM versions.

If you still have problems, please run `ppm log` directly after the
failure to see if if the log file contains any hints about what is
wrong.

Cheers,
-Jan

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