Using CPAN with a proxy failing after o conf init /proxy/

Question

I have a Linux box in a corporate environment in which web access is gated through a proxy which requires authentication.

During a first run of cpan it auto configu

Answer 1

You can try using this before calling cpan:

export http_proxy=http://my_net_id:my_net_pwd@10.12.8.9:3128/

This way maybe curl will use the proxy.