Re^2: PPM/CPAN connection issues

[technojosh]

Thanks for the response. See below for the output from your suggestion

GET http://ppm.activestate.com/CPAN/authors
User-Agent: lwp-request/6.00 libwww-perl/6.02

500 Can't connect to ppm.activestate.com:80 (Bad hostname)
Content-Type: text/plain
Client-Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 21:13:37 GMT
Client-Warning: Internal response

GET http://cpan.perl.org/authors
User-Agent: lwp-request/6.00 libwww-perl/6.02

500 Can't connect to cpan.perl.org:80 (Bad hostname)
Content-Type: text/plain
Client-Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 21:13:39 GMT
Client-Warning: Internal response

[Anonymous Monk]

Um why not set the proxy env vars as per http://docs.activestate.com/activeperl/5.6/faq/ActivePerl-faq2.html#ppm_and_proxies or LWP::UserAgent set http_proxy=http://username:password@localhost/

[technojosh]

This didn't work. I just get the same errors I mentioned above (the 404 errors).

Although I got a solution that worked below, I'd *rather* get the settings correct so I can just use the PPM gui. It must be something simple (right?, right?) since I can access all those files/urls from this machine, just not via ppm or cpan shells.