diff -u -r CPAN-2.16.orig/lib/CPAN/FirstTime.pm CPAN-2.16/lib/CPAN/FirstTime.pm
--- CPAN-2.16.orig/lib/CPAN/FirstTime.pm	2025-05-07 12:36:57.566381277 +0200
+++ CPAN-2.16/lib/CPAN/FirstTime.pm	2025-05-07 12:39:42.957929331 +0200
@@ -1283,7 +1283,11 @@
             );
         }
         else {
-            $CPAN::Config->{urllist} = [ 'http://www.cpan.org/' ];
+            # Hint: as of 2021-11: to get http, use http://www.cpan.org/
+            $CPAN::Config->{urllist} = [ 'https://www.cpan.org/' ];
+            $CPAN::Frontend->myprint(
+                "We initialized your 'urllist' to @{$CPAN::Config->{urllist}}. Type 'o conf init urllist' to change it.\n"
+            );
         }
     }
     elsif (!$matcher || "urllist" =~ $matcher) {