metacpan

[Leo Lapworth]

On 15 December 2014 at 11:59, Nicholas Clark <nick at ccl4.org> wrote:
> 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?

https://metacpan.org/about/faq#cani_automatically_redirectlinkspointingatsearch.cpan.orgtometacpan.org

Leo