Broken CPAN mirror?

[Joshua Root]

On 18/2/2025 07:26, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, 17 Feb 2025 at 19:39, Joshua Root <jmr at macports.org 
> <mailto:jmr at macports.org>> wrote:
>  >
>  > On 18/2/2025 02:20, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>  > > Hi,
>  > >
>  > > I don't know if it's just me or if this is a general problem. The
>  > > following mirror is breaking installation of some perl modules for me:
>  > > https://mirror.transip.net/CPAN/modules/by-modules/ <https:// 
> mirror.transip.net/CPAN/modules/by-modules/>
>  > >
>  > > After deleting the mirror the installation proceeds just fine.
>  >
>  > Breaking in what way? Serving HTML for files it doesn't have? Something
>  > else?
> 
> Am I allowed to send inline images to the mailing list? If yes, I can 
> forward this email to the mailing list.
> 
> This is what I get when I ask for something CPAN-related (it just serves 
> me the "homepage"; see the URL):
> 
> image.png
> 
> While it works perfectly fine if I ask it for Apache or something else:
> 
> image.png
> 
> But I'm not sure if this is just "a mirror of a mirror" or something else.
> 
> If I run something like
>      rsync rsync://mirror.transip.net/cpan/modules/by-module/XML/ 
> <http://mirror.transip.net/cpan/modules/by-module/XML/>
> it seems to work fine, but I cannot see anything CPAN-related over https.

OK, so yes, it's giving a 200 response when asked for a file it doesn't 
have. I'll remove it.

- Josh