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user1498499
user1498499

Reputation: 11

Installing strawberry perl in windows

I have installed perl in windows 7 and configured the proxy (http & ftp) as at How do I install a module? Strawberry Perl issues by Axeman, replacing proxy with my lan proxy IP and port respectively. However, when I run cpanm App::cpanminus, it returns a message for proxy authentication which has faile. Its requesting for a username.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2093

Answers (1)

Len Jaffe
Len Jaffe

Reputation: 3484

you need to set the http_proxy environment variable in the form:

http_proxy=http://user:password@host:port/

Otherwise just use the cpan client.

Edit: 2012-08-29

If you do not have the proxy username and password, you are not getting out through that proxy regardless of the client software.

Upvotes: 1

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