Re: Making www.cpan.org TLS-only

On Fri, Sep 01, 2017 at 12:48:02PM -0400, Olaf Alders wrote:

> As an (interesting?) aside, the Net::HTTP test suite just broke because of the 301 from http://www.cpan.org to https://www.cpan.org  https://github.com/libwww-perl/Net-HTTP/issues/53  Obviously that test made some assumptions which no longer hold up.  :)  A fix has been released.  I just point it out as an unexpected side effect of making these sorts of changes.  

It broke CPANdeps too, which needs to fetch 02packages.details.txt.gz,
as you're using some SSL options that its openssl doesn't understand.

The long-term fix is for me to upgrade the version of Debian that
CPANdeps uses, but in the mean time can that be another file excluded
from the re-directs please.

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