Re: [Module::Build] Odd output from CPAN trying to install latest Module::Build

(Andreas J. Koenig) wrote:
>>>>>> On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 18:33:03 -0800, Tyler MacDonald <[email protected]> said:
> 
>   > 	OK, I've figured out what went wrong: 0.27_06 isn't on
>   > www.cpan.org/pub/CPAN yet. However, *how* it went wrong is truly bizzare:
>   > LWP returned a "404 not found" error, yet somehow I still ended up with a
>   > .tar.gz and .tar file, and CPAN thinking it had actually downloaded
>   > something. This looks like a bug in CPAN.pm, both in the 1.7 version that's
>   > distributed with 5.8.7, and the latest release, 1.83.
> 
> Thanks, fixed in my copy. Both curl and lynx could make CPAN.pm
> believe that a download actually succeeded although it didn't. For
> curl the fix was easy by adding a few commandline switches. For lynx I
> had to apply some heuristics.

I'll note I've also seen Net::FTP on two different occasions spuriously 
throwing 404s out when it should have been something else. This 404 
bubbles up through LWP.

Adam K