PPM

From: Bill Hamilton (garage_dba_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 10/24/03 

To: "dbi-users" <dbi-users@perl.org>
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 09:26:30 -0500

This may not be the correct forum for this question - sorry.

I was trying to install DBI on a new server where I had just installed Perl.

PPM aborts ---
PPM> install dbi
Install package 'dbi?' (y/N): y
Retrieving package 'dbi'...
HTTP POST failed: 500 (Can't connect to www.activestate.com:80 (Bad hostname
'www.activestate.com'), <> line 3.
), in SOAP method call. Content of response:
 at C:/Perl/site/lib/PPM/SOAPClient.pm line 222

Line 222 says:
    my $result = $soap->send_receive(
                    $self->{'_server'},
                    $self->{'_urn'},
                    $method,
                    $soap_request );

What is the probable cause of this error?