Perl PPM error "failed 500 Can't connect to ppm4.activestate.com:8080 (connect: timeout)"

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Arivu picture Arivu · Jan 6, 2011 · Viewed 8.6k times · Source

when I try to connect PPM it shows this error, i have verified firewall also it has not activated. I can't able to download even a single module from activestate.

Thanks in advance.

Arivu

Answer

Axeman picture Axeman · Jan 6, 2011

If you are using a proxy, it could be that you have not set the proxy environment variable. 

 set http_proxy=http://myproxyserver.mydomain.com:5050

See their PPM Documenation

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