| Subject: | "reports" doesn't seem to use HTTP proxy settings |
I have http_proxy env var set to http://squid.easysoft.local:8080 (which
is my correct proxy server) and also http_proxy in my config:
cpan[4]> o conf http_proxy
http_proxy [http://squid.easysoft.local:8080]
however when I run reports I get:
cpan[6]> reports MJEVANS/DBD-ODBC-1.41.tar.gz
Distribution: M/MJ/MJEVANS/DBD-ODBC-1.41.tar.gz
path M/MJ/MJEVANS/DBD-ODBC-1.41.tar.gz
Fetching 'http://www.cpantesters.org/show/DBD-ODBC.yaml'...
Could not download 'http://www.cpantesters.org/show/DBD-ODBC.yaml': 500
Can't connect to www.cpantesters.org:80 (Connection refused)
NOTE: the last argument in the error is LWP::UserAgent message which I
added to CPAN::Distribution since error 500 is meanginless (it would be
worth doing this anyway):
$CPAN::Frontend->myprint("Fetching '$url'...");
my $resp = $Ua->get($url);
unless ($resp->is_success) {
$CPAN::Frontend->mydie(sprintf "Could not download '%s': %s
%s\n", $url, $resp->code, $resp->message);
I also added:
my $Ua;
eval { $Ua = CPAN::LWP::UserAgent->new;};
if ($@) {
$CPAN::Frontend->mydie("CPAN::LWP::UserAgent->new dies with
$@\n");
}
# added the following 2 lines
use Data::Dumper;
$CPAN::Frontend->myprint("proxy is " . Dumper($Ua->proxy(['http']))
. "\n");
and they output:
proxy is $VAR1 = undef;
suggesting a proxy server is not being set on the LWP::UserAgent in the
reports sub. I verified this is probably the case since adding $Ua-
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>env_proxy to the end of the above eval made it work but it should
probably pull the proxy setting from the CPAN config.
Martin
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Martin J. Evans
Wetherby, UK