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in reply to Help my IT admin unblock PPM and CPAN, please.

Howdy!

Are you having proxy issues? I just went through getting CPAN to play nice with the proxies here. I had to make sure I set the http_proxy and ftp_proxy parameters correctly *and* to set proxy_user to '' (empty string) instead of undef. Once I did that, it worked much better.

yours,
Michael