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

in a similar situation I have downloaded ppm modules somewhere else where
less restrictive firewall rules apply and installed modules from file using
ppm. Might be time consuming, but should work in many places.


On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 6:13 PM, Jan Dubois <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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