I tweeted something last night knowing full well that few people see my tweets and most of those that do aren't programmers. So I decided to post here in case anyone else experienced the same problem.

I installed the new LWP (v6) last night via cpan.

The next time I tried to install a module my cpan client barfed red errors (see below). CPAN::Reporter was erroring when trying to send test results via Metabase.

I updated all SSL modules (cpan> upgrade /SSL/) and installed Mozilla::CA as suggested in the LWP Changes (and a tweet by miyagawa).

No luck.

I noticed something else in the LWP Changes file:

For https://... default to verified connections with require IO::Socket::SSL
and Mozilla::CA modules to be installed.  Old behaviour can be requested by
setting the PERL_LWP_SSL_VERIFY_HOSTNAME environment variable to 0.  The
LWP::UserAgent got new ssl_opts method to control this as well.

so I added this to my .bashrc and all is well again:

alias cpan='env PERL_LWP_SSL_VERIFY_HOSTNAME=0 cpan'

Not exactly a solution, but I'm ok with it for now.

(of course elsewhere in my .bashrc I have

alias sudo='sudo '

so that when I do sudo cpan it expands aliases.

So is this a module problem or is it a problem with cpantesters' certificate?

Here are the errors I saw in case anyone is interested (after installing LWP 6 I tried to reinstall the old 5.837 before I found a fix for the problem):

CPAN::Reporter: Test result is 'pass', All tests successful.
CPAN::Reporter: preparing a CPAN Testers report for libwww-perl-5.837
CPAN::Reporter: sending test report with 'pass' via Metabase
CPAN::Reporter: Test::Reporter: error from 'Test::Reporter::Transport::Metabase:'
fact submission failed: Can't connect to metabase.cpantesters.org:443 (certificate verify failed) at /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.1/Metabase/Client/Simple.pm line 111
        Metabase::Client::Simple::submit_fact('Metabase::Client::Simple=HASH(0x94572a8)', 'CPAN::Testers::Report=HASH(0xa4d2778)') called at /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.1/Test/Reporter/Transport/Metabase.pm line 132
        Test::Reporter::Transport::Metabase::send('Test::Reporter::Transport::Metabase=HASH(0xa332920)', 'Test::Reporter=HASH(0x9eb3ce8)') called at /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.1/Test/Reporter.pm line 279
        eval {...} called at /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.1/Test/Reporter.pm line 279
        Test::Reporter::send('Test::Reporter=HASH(0x9eb3ce8)') called at /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.1/CPAN/Reporter.pm line 503
        CPAN::Reporter::_dispatch_report('HASH(0x9ec5c70)') called at /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.1/CPAN/Reporter.pm line 117
        CPAN::Reporter::grade_test('CPAN::Distribution=HASH(0x9153068)', '/usr/bin/make test', 'ARRAY(0x9f08748)', 0) called at /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.1/CPAN/Reporter.pm line 223
        CPAN::Reporter::test('CPAN::Distribution=HASH(0x9153068)', '/usr/bin/make test') called at /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.1/CPAN/Distribution.pm line 3242
        CPAN::Distribution::test('CPAN::Distribution=HASH(0x9153068)') called at /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.1/CPAN/Distribution.pm line 3464
        CPAN::Distribution::install('CPAN::Distribution=HASH(0x9153068)') called at /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.1/CPAN/Shell.pm line 1796
        CPAN::Shell::rematein('CPAN::Shell', 'install', 'GAAS/libwww-perl-5.837.tar.gz') called at /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.1/CPAN/Shell.pm line 1976
        CPAN::Shell::__ANON__('CPAN::Shell', 'GAAS/libwww-perl-5.837.tar.gz') called at /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.1/App/Cpan.pm line 459
        App::Cpan::__ANON__('GAAS/libwww-perl-5.837.tar.gz') called at /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.1/App/Cpan.pm line 468
        App::Cpan::_default('ARRAY(0x857d800)', 'HASH(0x8d68a58)') called at /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.1/App/Cpan.pm line 386
        App::Cpan::run('App::Cpan', 'GAAS/libwww-perl-5.837.tar.gz') called at /usr/local/bin/cpan line 11