Trouble installing Mechanize with Strawberry (portable) Perl (for Windows 7) - windows

Question

I've seen posts elsewhere on Stack Overflow suggesting that the sort of problem I have installing Mechanize for use with Strawberry Perl occur due to corporate firewalls, but I am not behind a corporate firewall. I do use an ISP modem and I have anti-virus software installed on my desktop. How should I configure cpan to avoid this problem?
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Welcome to Strawberry Perl Portable Edition!
* URL - http://www.strawberryperl.com/
* see README.TXT for more info
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Perl executable: C:\portableperl\perl\bin\perl.exe
Perl version : 5.18.2 / MSWin32-x64-multi-thread
C:\portableperl>cpan WWW:Mechanize
CPAN: CPAN::SQLite loaded ok (v0.203)
CPAN: LWP::UserAgent loaded ok (v6.05)
CPAN: Time::HiRes loaded ok (v1.9726)
Fetching with LWP:
http://cpan.strawberryperl.com/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
LWP failed with code[500] message[Can't connect to cpan.strawberryperl.com:80 (B
ad hostname)]
Warning: no success downloading 'C:\portableperl\cpan\sources\authors\01mailrc.t
xt.gz.tmp2828'. Giving up on it.
Fetching with LWP:
http://www.cpan.org/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
LWP failed with code[500] message[Can't connect to www.cpan.org:80 (Bad hostname
)]
Warning: no success downloading 'C:\portableperl\cpan\sources\authors\01mailrc.t
xt.gz.tmp2828'. Giving up on it.
Fetching with LWP:
http://www.cpan.org/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
LWP failed with code[500] message[Can't connect to www.cpan.org:80 (Bad hostname
)]
Warning: no success downloading 'C:\portableperl\cpan\sources\authors\01mailrc.t
xt.gz.tmp2828'. Giving up on it.
Warning: no success downloading 'C:\portableperl\cpan\sources\authors\01mailrc.t
xt.gz.tmp2828'. Giving up on it.
No external ftp command available
Fetching with LWP:
http://cpan.strawberryperl.com/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
LWP failed with code[500] message[Can't connect to cpan.strawberryperl.com:80 (B
ad hostname)]
Warning: no success downloading 'C:\portableperl\cpan\sources\authors\01mailrc.t
xt.gz.tmp2828'. Giving up on it.
Fetching with LWP:
http://www.cpan.org/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
LWP failed with code[500] message[Can't connect to www.cpan.org:80 (Bad hostname
)]
Warning: no success downloading 'C:\portableperl\cpan\sources\authors\01mailrc.t
xt.gz.tmp2828'. Giving up on it.
Fetching with LWP:
http://www.cpan.org/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
LWP failed with code[500] message[Can't connect to www.cpan.org:80 (Bad hostname
)]
Warning: no success downloading 'C:\portableperl\cpan\sources\authors\01mailrc.t
xt.gz.tmp2828'. Giving up on it.
Warning: no success downloading 'C:\portableperl\cpan\sources\authors\01mailrc.t
xt.gz.tmp2828'. Giving up on it.
No external ftp command available
CPAN: YAML::XS loaded ok (v0.41)
Please check, if the URLs I found in your configuration file
(http://cpan.strawberryperl.com/, http://www.cpan.org/,
http://www.cpan.org/) are valid. The urllist can be edited. E.g. with 'o
conf urllist push ftp://myurl/'
Could not fetch authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
C:\portableperl>

Answer 1

Given the list of error messages:
LWP failed with code[500] message[Can't connect to cpan.strawberryperl.com:80 (Bad hostname)]
LWP failed with code[500] message[Can't connect to www.cpan.org:80 (Bad hostname)]
I would suggest that it's either a problem with your internet connection, your firewall, or permissions that you're giving cpan.
I suspect that you can probably reach either of the two above urls via a web browser.
Try running cmd prompt as administrator, and try again.

Answer 2

Problem solved. It was the damn anti-virus software running on my machine!!!!