Re: HTTPS over LWP

[Andreas Niemeyer]

Yesterday I've search about several hours and found some related postings and articles, in which exactly my problem was described, but not solved.
I don't want low level programming, if anyone has samplecode, please post it.

Best regards,

Andreas

http://www.byte.com/documents/s=493/byt20010214s0005/index3.htm
http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=179922
http://groups.google.de/ groups?q=perl+SSL+HTTP::Daemon&hl=de&lr=&ie=UTF- 8&selm=3CB9EFAF.80809%40computer.org&rnum=1



Am Sonntag, 24.11.02 um 17:54 Uhr schrieb Keary Suska:

on 11/22/02 7:40 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] purportedly said:

I have the problem to handle CONNECT requests with LWP, serval times
discuss but not really solved in my opinion. What should be a useable
way to enable ssl-support, install an old version of libwww with regard
to the bugfix-report on sourceforge by patching http.pm and https.pm or
has anyone a better solution?

1. Install openssl (http://www.openssl.org)
2. Install Bundle::LWP (use perl -MCPAN -e shell)
3. Install Crypt::SSLeay (same as LWP)

I've installed all recommend modules.
Ok, I've the problem to handle client-requests about the browser, the script should be a proxy with logging-capable.
If I define a request-object like

my $req = new HTTP::Request('GET', 'https://www.nodeworks.com');

or get one about the HTTP::Daemon

my $req = new HTTP::Request('CONNECT', 'http://www.nodeworks.com:443');


, only the first works. I've read something about patching the Daemon, other people choose the way to patch http.pm - Modules.


use LWP::Simple;
use LWP::UserAgent;
use LWP::Protocol::https;
LWP::Debug::level('+');

my $ua = new LWP::UserAgent;
#my $req = new HTTP::Request('CONNECT', 'http://www.nodeworks.com:443');
my $req = new HTTP::Request('GET', 'https://www.nodeworks.com');
my $res = $ua->request($req);
print $res->code."\n";

Now you have https support with LWP.

Another point I'm wondering about is that the latest libwww-package
isn't extented in the functionality, or I'm be under a misapprehension.

Perhaps, but there are likely bug fixes that you will want. Best to keep it
up to date.

Keary Suska
Esoteritech, Inc.
"Leveraging Open Source for a better Internet"

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Andreas Niemeyer