Getting CPAN.pm to not try FTP and use HTTP, malformed urllist?

I have a typical Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 3 box and I am
trying to get CPAN working. The Huge Corp where I work blocks all FTP,
so I cannot use FTP and I am trying to get the CPAN module to use ONLY
HTTP. The changes to the conf I make dont seem to work. My config
options include:

urllist http://mirrors.kernel.org/cpan/
ftp_proxy (null)
http_proxy (my http proxy FQDN)

In spite of this configuration, CPAN.pm complains about a malforned
urllist and never tries HTTP and just keeps flailing away to try to
connect to ftp.perl.org via ftp, which never succeeds:

Trying with /usr/bin/wget -O - to get

ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
--14:33:30-- ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
 => `-
Resolving ftp.perl.org... done.
Connecting to ftp.perl.org[64.74.207.33]:21... connected.
Logging in as anonymous ...
Error in server greeting.
Retrying.


1) Is this some kind of RedHat nonsense? When I invoke perl -MCPAN -e
shell it reports CPAN::Config options from
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/CPAN/Config.pm
but is the RedHat perl 5.8.0 install broken?

2) What is malforned about my urllist? It looks fine.

Thanks, it would be nice to get CPAN.pm working through our http-only
firewall.

-W Sanders
 http://wsanders.net

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