The entire premise of this program is very confusing to me.

if your goal is to install modules from CPAN, and your objection to using the CPAN module is that it uses FTP but you can't access FTP servers, then why don't you just configure CPAN to only know about HTTP sources??

The list of CPAN mirrors that CPAN fetches from is entirely under your control when you configure the url list ... if you only specify http:// urls, it will only use HTTP

Am i missing something here?