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copied!<p>This might not be a complete solution to your problem. But here it is anyway:</p> <p>From your "detailed" problem description it looks like it's a problem with your desktop/laptop. Even though your firewall allows connections to websites as you mentioned, "FTP" might not be allowed by the Windows internal firewall.</p> <p>Usually, ports 20 (FTP command port) and 21 (FTP data port) should have been added to the firewall exceptions (In Windows - <em>Start</em> → <em>Settings</em> → <em>Control Panel</em> → Click on <em>Security Center</em> → <em>Firewall</em> → <em>Exceptions (tab)</em> → <em>Add ports</em>. You can try adding ports 20 and 21 to the exceptions.</p> <p>However, if you are connected to a router, you may have to port forward ports 20 and 21. However, these ports are forwarded by default, or if you are in a corporate VPN then it's a whole different story. Corporate VPNs, mostly restrict port 21 explicitly however allow port 22 (which is a secured version of port 21, for SFTP). Under such circumstances you may want to use <em>ftp_proxy</em>.</p> <p>Alternatively (if you don't want to add port 20 and 21 to exception), you can go to the <code>cpan</code> prompt and use an <code>ftp_proxy</code> by:</p> <pre><code>cpan> o conf ftp_proxy http://your.ftpproxy.com </code></pre> <p>and then issue the <code>install <module></code> command. Or you can update your <code>../CPAN/config.pm</code> file to make permanent changes to the <code>ftp_proxy</code> parameter.</p> <p>Well, these may be the traditional solutions which you probably already tried. The next step would be to try set the <code>FTP_PASSIVE</code> mode to <code>1</code>. By default the <code>libnetcfg</code> configuration for this is set to <code>0</code>. To change this, find the <code>libnetcfg.bat</code> file (it should be somewhere <code>C:\Perl\bin</code>). Open the file in an editor and replace</p> <pre><code>ftp_int_passive 0 </code></pre> <p>with</p> <pre><code>ftp_int_passive 1 </code></pre> <p>This is the Windows batch file that runs once <code>CPAN</code> is invoked to set the environment variables. Under a UNIX/Linux-like architecture it's found as <code>libnet.cfg</code> and environment variable <code>FTP_PASSIVE</code>, like</p> <pre><code>$set | grep FTP_PASSIVE FTP_PASSIVE=0 </code></pre> <p>so to set just <code>EXPORT FTP_PASSIVE=1</code>.</p> <p>These might be a few of the very many ways of debugging this. Honestly, there is no point fiddling around the library code as they well work on every other machine, usually 95% of <code>01mailrc.txt.gz.tmp1252</code> download issues are due to network/OS/firewall issues, but if you want to expand your Perl knowledge of LWP you can. In fact, you should also be looking at <code>CPAN::FTP::netrc</code>. Best of luck...</p>

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