note martinvi <p>Maybe, I missed a point or two ... <p>At my work environment, I've pretty much the same conditions -- i.e. restrictive firewall and an authenticating proxy, which allows only "browser ftp". <p>After reading this very thread, I've tweaked Config.pm (That's down in $YourPerlModulesAreHere/5.8.x/CPAN). When I set ftp_proxy to the same value as http_proxy and put the credentials in the URL, a little happy LWP goes going. <p>Here a snippet from Config.pm: <code> $CPAN::Config = { # more stuff here ... 'ftp_proxy' => q[http://user:passwd@server:port], 'http_proxy' => q[http://user:passwd@server:port], # ... and here also } </code> <p>I hope, anyone -- beside myself -- can made some good use of it. 394501 394501