On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 08:49:27AM -0800, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > >>>>> "Paul" == Paul Mison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Paul> On 31/03/2003 at 22:39 +0100, Leon Brocard wrote: > >> This is terrible, terrible: http://www.cpan.org/ > > Paul> Out of interest, what do people get from www.cpan.org? I only ever use > Paul> search.cpan.org myself. What am I missing? (Please no "Matt's Scripts" > Paul> jokes, ta. April Fools has been tedious enough already.) > > Well, you can't run my MINICPAN[1] mirroring program against > search.cpan.org, that I'm aware of.
That is because http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/ is not a real CPAN mirror, it just redirects to the users selected mirror, which is stored in a cookie. Graham.
