[Bangalore-pm] CPAN to MetaCPAN auto-redirect

[venkatakrishnan g]

Sweet, Thanks :)


On 7 October 2013 03:54, SundaraRaman R <sundaryourfriend at gmail.com> wrote:

> Huh, I went searching for something else, and coincidentally came across a related
> FAQ<https://github.com/CPAN-API/cpan-api/wiki/FAQ#can-i-automatically-redirect-links-pointing-at-searchcpanorg-to-metacpanorg>right after sending this:
>
>> For Chrome users, the MetaCPAN Helper<https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/metacpan-helper/aoioenbjpmccpkincghhjfmeceknpcnb>extension will automatically rewrite
>> search.cpan.org links to MetaCPAN.
>>
>> You can accomplish the same thing by modifying your hosts file. Add the
>> following lines and all links to search.cpan.org (and links to source
>> code) will be redirected to MetaCPAN:
>>
>> 46.43.35.68 search.cpan.org
>> 46.43.35.68 cpansearch.perl.org
>>
>> If you do this, be sure to point cpanm to another mirror, as it defaults
>> to search.cpan.org. Here's how:
>>
>> export PERL_CPANM_OPT="--mirror http://www.cpan.no/" # Insert your closest mirror here.
>>
>>
> HTH,
> Sundar
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 3:43 AM, SundaraRaman R <sundaryourfriend at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> Long ago (ok, more like a month ago), I'd lamented the fact that Google
>> and most other places link us to cpan.org pages of modules rather than
>> the much better metacpan.org pages, in a thread here. I came across this
>> blog post <http://perlhacks.com/2013/01/give-me-metacpan/> while
>> searching for a solution to this today, which led me to this script:
>> CPAN to METACPAN <http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/157649> - "Spot
>> CPAN pages and automagically redirect to METACPAN equivalent". It's a
>> Greasemonkey userscript, so needs Greasemonkey installed on your Firefox
>> first (will probably work on Chrome too with the Tampermonkey addon,
>> haven't tried it there).
>>
>> It adds a few seconds delay to the pageload time due to the extra
>> redirects, but I'm sufficiently Lazy that this is worth it. :) Hope someone
>> else here finds this useful too.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Sundar
>>
>> --
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>>
>>
>
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