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

Question

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 1

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

Answer 2

Install Fiddler Web Debugger ( www.fiddler2.com ), launch it, start a web browser (for Fiddle to detect settings), then relaunch PPM.

Fiddler will work as the proxy and resolve the requests properly. I didn't even need to add the "http_proxy" environment setting that is recommended by ActiveState, but you may need to, so from a command prompt type: set http_proxy=http://127.0.0.1:8888 then from this same command prompt type PPM to launch the PPM