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Re^5: HSTS policy breaks cpan utility on Windowsby syphilis (Archbishop) |
on Nov 22, 2019 at 01:34 UTC ( [id://11109027]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Default to the secure option is fair But the case here is that the "secure option" is being enforced. If I want to download www.cpan.org/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz, I'm forced to do it securely. A fresh build of perl (from source) has no capability (AFAICS) to perform such a secure download. Therefore the cpan utility is initially reliant on some external utility that is capable of a secure download - and there's no guarantee that such an "external utility" exists. If no such external utility is available to cpan, then cpan is unusable on a fresh build of perl, no matter how you configure it. That's a rather annoying situation to be in - especially if, as Anonymous Monk asserts elsewhere in this thread, it's a situation created by the cpan.org webserver. Cheers, Rob
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