tests fail in fetch()

[briandfoy]

I'm trying to install MetaCPAN::Client on a new machine with a self-compiled v5.38.0. These URLs that fail are prefectly fine from any other client I tried. I suspect this is actually a problem in a module that it uses, and I am investigating.

$ uname -a
Darwin m2otter.local 22.6.0 Darwin Kernel Version 22.6.0: Wed Jul  5 22:21:53 PDT 2023; root:xnu-8796.141.3~6/RELEASE_ARM64_T6020 arm64

$ openssl version
OpenSSL 3.1.2 1 Aug 2023 (Library: OpenSSL 3.1.2 1 Aug 2023)

$ cpan MetaCPAN::Client
Loading internal logger. Log::Log4perl recommended for better logging
Reading '/Users/brian/.cpan/Metadata'
  Database was generated on Sun, 06 Aug 2023 15:17:02 GMT
Running install for module 'MetaCPAN::Client'
Checksum for /Users/brian/.cpan/sources/authors/id/M/MI/MICKEY/MetaCPAN-Client-2.030000.tar.gz ok
'YAML' not installed, will not store persistent state
Configuring M/MI/MICKEY/MetaCPAN-Client-2.030000.tar.gz with Makefile.PL
Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Generating a Unix-style Makefile
Writing Makefile for MetaCPAN::Client
Writing MYMETA.yml and MYMETA.json
  MICKEY/MetaCPAN-Client-2.030000.tar.gz
  /usr/local/perls/perl-5.38.0/bin/perl Makefile.PL -- OK
Running make for M/MI/MICKEY/MetaCPAN-Client-2.030000.tar.gz
cp lib/MetaCPAN/Client/Permission.pm blib/lib/MetaCPAN/Client/Permission.pm
cp lib/MetaCPAN/Client/Module.pm blib/lib/MetaCPAN/Client/Module.pm
cp lib/MetaCPAN/Client/Release.pm blib/lib/MetaCPAN/Client/Release.pm
cp lib/MetaCPAN/Client/DownloadURL.pm blib/lib/MetaCPAN/Client/DownloadURL.pm
cp lib/MetaCPAN/Client/Types.pm blib/lib/MetaCPAN/Client/Types.pm
cp lib/MetaCPAN/Client/Cover.pm blib/lib/MetaCPAN/Client/Cover.pm
cp lib/MetaCPAN/Client/ResultSet.pm blib/lib/MetaCPAN/Client/ResultSet.pm
cp lib/MetaCPAN/Client/Distribution.pm blib/lib/MetaCPAN/Client/Distribution.pm
cp lib/MetaCPAN/Client/Author.pm blib/lib/MetaCPAN/Client/Author.pm
cp lib/MetaCPAN/Client.pm blib/lib/MetaCPAN/Client.pm
cp lib/MetaCPAN/Client/Pod.pm blib/lib/MetaCPAN/Client/Pod.pm
cp lib/MetaCPAN/Client/Role/HasUA.pm blib/lib/MetaCPAN/Client/Role/HasUA.pm
cp lib/MetaCPAN/Client/Role/Entity.pm blib/lib/MetaCPAN/Client/Role/Entity.pm
cp lib/MetaCPAN/Client/Scroll.pm blib/lib/MetaCPAN/Client/Scroll.pm
cp lib/MetaCPAN/Client/Favorite.pm blib/lib/MetaCPAN/Client/Favorite.pm
cp lib/MetaCPAN/Client/Rating.pm blib/lib/MetaCPAN/Client/Rating.pm
cp lib/MetaCPAN/Client/Package.pm blib/lib/MetaCPAN/Client/Package.pm
cp lib/MetaCPAN/Client/File.pm blib/lib/MetaCPAN/Client/File.pm
cp lib/MetaCPAN/Client/Mirror.pm blib/lib/MetaCPAN/Client/Mirror.pm
cp lib/MetaCPAN/Client/Request.pm blib/lib/MetaCPAN/Client/Request.pm
  MICKEY/MetaCPAN-Client-2.030000.tar.gz
  /usr/bin/make -- OK
Running make test for MICKEY/MetaCPAN-Client-2.030000.tar.gz
PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 "/usr/local/perls/perl-5.38.0/bin/perl" "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-MTest::Harness" "-e" "undef *Test::Harness::Switches; test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t t/api/*.t
t/00-report-prereqs.t ......... #
# Versions for all modules listed in MYMETA.json (including optional ones):
#
# === Configure Requires ===
#
#     Module                Want Have
#     ------------------- ------ ----
#     ExtUtils::MakeMaker 7.1101 7.70
#
# === Build Requires ===
#
#     Module              Want Have
#     ------------------- ---- ----
#     ExtUtils::MakeMaker  any 7.70
#
# === Test Requires ===
#
#     Module                   Want     Have
#     -------------------- -------- --------
#     ExtUtils::MakeMaker       any     7.70
#     File::Spec                any     3.88
#     LWP::Protocol::https      any     6.11
#     Test::Fatal               any    0.017
#     Test::More                any 1.302194
#     Test::Needs          0.002005 0.002010
#     base                      any     2.27
#     blib                     1.01     1.07
#
# === Test Recommends ===
#
#     Module                     Want     Have
#     ---------------------- -------- --------
#     CPAN::Meta             2.120900 2.150010
#     HTTP::Tiny::Mech       1.001002 1.001002
#     WWW::Mechanize::Cached     1.54     1.56
#
# === Runtime Requires ===
#
#     Module           Want     Have
#     --------------- ----- --------
#     Carp              any     1.54
#     HTTP::Tiny      0.056    0.086
#     IO::Socket::SSL  1.42    2.083
#     JSON::MaybeXS     any 1.004005
#     JSON::PP          any     4.16
#     Moo               any 2.005005
#     Moo::Role         any 2.005005
#     Net::SSLeay      1.49     1.92
#     Ref::Util         any    0.204
#     Safe::Isa         any 1.000010
#     Type::Tiny        any 2.004000
#     URI::Escape       any     5.19
#     strict            any     1.12
#     warnings          any     1.65
#
t/00-report-prereqs.t ......... ok
t/api/_get.t .................. ok
t/api/_get_or_search.t ........ ok
t/api/_search.t ............... ok
t/api/author.t ................ 1/? Failed to fetch 'https://fastapi.metacpan.org/author/XSAWYERX': Internal Exception at /Users/brian/.cpan/build/MetaCPAN-Client-2.030000-5/blib/lib/MetaCPAN/Client.pm line 288.
# Tests were run but no plan was declared and done_testing() was not seen.
# Looks like your test exited with 2 just after 2.

    ... lots more of the same ...

Files=23, Tests=90,  3 wallclock secs ( 0.02 usr  0.02 sys +  1.63 cusr  0.23 csys =  1.90 CPU)
Result: FAIL
Failed 15/23 test programs. 1/90 subtests failed.
make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 255
  MICKEY/MetaCPAN-Client-2.030000.tar.gz
  /usr/bin/make test -- NOT OK
//hint// to see the cpan-testers results for installing this module, try:
  reports MICKEY/MetaCPAN-Client-2.030000.tar.gz

[briandfoy]

In short, I had a filename set in SSL_CERT_FILE, but that file did not exist. That's my fault and I didn't realize that HTTP::Tiny would not fail over to something else (and it can make sense).

This is a problem with HTTP::Tiny, which I'll deal with separately. But this is related to #82, where we could use better error reporting.

Feel free to immediately close this once you've read it since #82 is sufficient.