PPM through Proxy (Activeperl / Activestate)

[nasir]

hi, i have just installed the latest Activeperl from activestate.com
and need to add some modules through PPM. I am behind a firewall and
forced to go through a proxy (IE Settings are Automatic Proxy
Configuration URL (something like http://server.domain.com/proxy.pac).

I am unable to install package through PPM surely because of this proxy
problem, how can I tell PPM to use the PROXY settings in IE or define
proxy URL manually in PPM?

ppm> install Net::Telnet
Error: No valid repositories:
Error: 500 Can't connect to ppm.ActiveState.com:80 (connect: Unknown
error)
Error: 500 Can't connect to ppm.ActiveState.com:80 (connect: Unknown
error)

by the way I have defined the Environment Variable in my Windows 2000
Professional box as described in aspn.activestate.com but no luck. As I
said, IE needs Automatic Proxy configuration URL along with a .pac file

please suggest.

 

[Reinhard Pagitsch]

Hello,

hi, i have just installed the latest Activeperl from activestate.com
and need to add some modules through PPM. I am behind a firewall and
forced to go through a proxy (IE Settings are Automatic Proxy
Configuration URL (something like http://server.domain.com/proxy.pac).

I am unable to install package through PPM surely because of this proxy
problem, how can I tell PPM to use the PROXY settings in IE or define
proxy URL manually in PPM?

by the way I have defined the Environment Variable in my Windows 2000
Professional box as described in aspn.activestate.com but no luck. As I
said, IE needs Automatic Proxy configuration URL along with a .pac file

please suggest.

I only can suggest to download the ppm packages from Activestate and
install them manualy.

ppm install Some-Module.ppd

 

[nasir]

yes, i finally did that. Anyways it is a kind of manual method but
there seems to be no work around unless they make PPM, "Automatic Proxy
config URL" enabled

thank you

 

[Reinhard Pagitsch]

yes, i finally did that. Anyways it is a kind of manual method but
there seems to be no work around unless they make PPM, "Automatic Proxy
config URL" enabled

No, as I know there is no work around, sorry.

regards,
Reinhard

thank you

Reinhard Pagitsch wrote:

I only can suggest to download the ppm packages from Activestate and
install them manualy.

ppm install Some-Module.ppd

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