Bug #97053 for PPM-Make: hardcoded URLs with dead host theoryx5

Tue Jul 08 08:28:05 2014 Ralf.Neubauer [...] wido.bv.aok.de - Ticket created

Subject:	hardcoded URLs with dead host theoryx5
Date:	Tue, 8 Jul 2014 12:27:50 +0000
To:	"bug-PPM-Make [...] rt.cpan.org" <bug-PPM-Make [...] rt.cpan.org>
From:	"Neubauer, Ralf" <ralf.neubauer [...] wido.bv.aok.de>

Hi, when I use make_ppm <module> I get the following vague message (which host? is it important?) multiple times: SOAP Fault: 504 Unknown Host SOAP Fault: 504 Unknown Host After some searching I found that it is generated in sub make_info_soap in PPM::Make::Search . The following URLs are hardcoded in the module source and not overrideable with config variables: my $info_uri = 'http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/Apache/InfoServer'; my $info_proxy = 'http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/cgi-bin/ppminfo.cgi'; my $meta = 'http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/meta/'; I use PPM-Make-0.9901 which was released on 02 Feb 2012. http://mirrors.cpan.org/stats/hist/ tells me theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca went inactive on 2013-10-07. What does the code in question do? Is it important or can I just ignore the message? Is there a successor to theoryx5 or should the code just die, because it does nothing but print a cryptic message? Ralf

Thu Jul 31 01:27:19 2014 ishigaki [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

On Tue Jul 08 21:28:05 2014, Ralf.Neubauer@wido.bv.aok.de wrote: Show quoted text

> Hi, > > when I use > > make_ppm <module> > > I get the following vague message (which host? is it important?) > multiple times: > > SOAP Fault: 504 Unknown Host > SOAP Fault: 504 Unknown Host > > After some searching I found that it is generated in sub > make_info_soap in PPM::Make::Search . The following URLs are hardcoded > in the module source and not overrideable with config variables: > > my $info_uri = 'http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/Apache/InfoServer'; > my $info_proxy = 'http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/cgi-bin/ppminfo.cgi'; > my $meta = 'http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/meta/'; > > I use PPM-Make-0.9901 which was released on 02 Feb 2012. > http://mirrors.cpan.org/stats/hist/ tells me theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca > went inactive on 2013-10-07. > > What does the code in question do? Is it important or can I just > ignore the message? Is there a successor to theoryx5 or should the > code just die, because it does nothing but print a cryptic message? > > Ralf

Thanks for the heads-up. Previously Randy Kobes (the original author) ran those sites to provide better meta information on a CPAN distribution. Sadly, he passed away in 2010. Those sites had remained there for three years since then, and gone. In the meantime, I dropped support for those sites in the master. https://github.com/charsbar/ppm-make/commit/0a078c242cd93090d8097f738c5bcc04fe12fca2 I'm thinking of adding support for MetaCPAN API to fetch meta information, but have not implemented it yet.

Thu Jul 31 01:27:19 2014 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Thu Jul 31 01:27:19 2014 ishigaki [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'patched'

Wed Jun 01 14:52:23 2016 ishigaki [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

Closed as this has been fixed in 0.9902. Thanks.

Wed Jun 01 14:52:24 2016 ishigaki [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'patched' to 'resolved'