Archive for March 2011

CPAN Testers Metabase has a certificate

As an update to my previous post, David Golden has posted an update that the certificate for metabase.cpantesters.org is now signed by a certificate authority that is included in Mozilla-CA! This means anyone who was using my hypothetical distribution as a work-around in the mean time should not only stop using it, but it will […]

CPAN::Reporter, Transport::Metabase, and libwww-lwp 6

Recently libwww-lwp-6.00 hit the CPAN with one major change in the default operating behavior: connecting using the https protocol would cause the certificate chain from the server to be verified that it was issued by a trusted certificate authority. In my opinion this behavior is a good thing, as this finally brings libwww-lwp in line […]