On Oct 16, 2009, at 23:01 , Henry Hartley wrote:

>  Henry Hartley wrote:
> >>>>>> There is something preventing LWP from seeing your
> >>>>>> http_proxy environment variable.  The error message
> >>>>>> doesn't even come from PPM itself, it is
> >>>>>> LWP::UserAgent::proxy() that is complaining
> >>>>>> about "10.1." not being a valid proxy address.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> You may want to write a small test program using
> >>>>>> LWP::simple to download a file from the web and see
> >>>>>> if you run into the same issue.
> >>
> >> This four line script will generate the error for me.
> >>
> >> #!/usr/bin/perl
> >> use LWP::UserAgent;
> >> $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new();
> >> $ua->env_proxy;
> >>
> >> C:\temp>lwp.pl
> >> Proxy must be specified as absolute URI; '10.1.' is not at
> >> C:\temp\lwp.pl line 4
> >>
> >> The error message is exactly the same (i.e. the 10.1. doesn't
> >> change) no matter what I set http_proxy to or if it is not set at
> >> all. Does capitalization of the http_proxy matter and if so,
> >> what's proper? Otherwise, I'm lost.
> 
>  There was an environment variable called RSYNC_PROXY which was set  
>  (for some unknown reason) to "10.1." When I removed that, all became  
>  well. Crazy.

Recent versions of libwww-perl do have a fix[1] for this.   
Unfortunately that only made it in libwww-perl-5.832 and ActivePerl  
1006 ships with 5.831.  If you manage to 'ppm upgrade libwww-perl' you  
should not risk having RSYNC_PROXY coming back to haunt you :-)

[1] http://github.com/gisle/libwww-perl/commit/e99048842090d3c7cc03cdb0beb590d5b97b531f

Regards,
Gisle

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