metacpan

[Nicholas Clark]

On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 10:38:18AM +0000, Leo Lapworth wrote:

> If you were trying to replace search.cpan.org/foo/bar -> a metacpan
> URL (the main use of search.metacpan.org I think), we now use the
> 'search.mcpan.org' domain,
> 
> So if you are on:
> 
> http://search.cpan.org/~lbrocard/Data-Page-2.02/lib/Data/Page.pm
> 
> Add in the 'm' in front of 'cpan.org':
> 
> http://search.mcpan.org/~lbrocard/Data-Page-2.02/lib/Data/Page.pm
> 
> And you will be redirected to:
> 
> https://metacpan.org/pod/release/LBROCARD/Data-Page-2.02/lib/Data/Page.pm
> 
> Hope that helps.

So, does this mean that if I doctor my /etc/hosts file so that search.cpan.org
is 23.235.37.143 23.235.33.143, then I can click on Google results with
impunity, and always end up on a useful page on metacpan?


Nicholas Clark