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.

Thanks for your time.

-- 
Henry

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