in reply to Forcing CPAN.pm to ignore LWP/Net::FTP and use wget/lynx etc
Maybe, I missed a point or two ...
At my work environment, I've pretty much the same conditions -- i.e. restrictive firewall and an authenticating proxy, which allows only "browser ftp".
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.
Here a snippet from Config.pm:
$CPAN::Config = { # more stuff here ... 'ftp_proxy' => q[http://user:passwd@server:port], 'http_proxy' => q[http://user:passwd@server:port], # ... and here also }
I hope, anyone -- beside myself -- can made some good use of it.
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