separate bug for each image please.

Let's use this bug for the perl image and open new bugs for the eap and jws images.

For perl, the image will need to be updated to auto-configure CPAN to use a proxy.  CPAN configuration details are found here:
http://perldoc.perl.org/CPAN.html#CONFIGURATION

It should be lowercase, so http_proxy, not HTTP_PROXY. Can you please test it with lowercase? I believe https_proxy and no_proxy could be in lowercase as well, but http_proxy must be in lowercase. From curl man page:

The environment variables can be specified in lower case or upper case. The lower case version has precedence. http_proxy is an exception as it is only available in lower case.

So, can you please test with lowercase and report the results?

I have opened a pull request that translates HTTP_PROXY to http_proxy, that should also help: https://github.com/sclorg/s2i-perl-container/pull/95

Also, just an fyi, I've realized that curl was actually doing ok, since it used https, which is fine in uppercase. But cpanm did not use the uppercase version, it was the one that failed.

centos image has been updated, rhel will be updated when troy rebuilds.

This has been merged and is in openshift3/perl-516-rhel7:5.16-43 or newer.

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this bug is fixed

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2016:1933