I just upgraded Net::SSLeay.pm to understand OpenSSL version numbers. Some small bugfixes were included as well. Download from CPAN, e.g: ftp.funet.fi:/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/authors/id/SAMPO/Net_SSLeay.pm-1.03.tar.gz or from my site http://www.neuronio.pt/SSLeay.pm.html --Sampo (old blurb follows) What is this? Net::SSLeay.pm is a perl module that allows you to call Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) functions of the SSLeay/OpenSSL library directly from your perl scripts. Its useful if you want to program robots that access secure web servers or if you want to build your own applications over SSL encrypted tunnels. If you just want to view web pages on https servers, you could say perl -e 'use Net::SSLeay; ($p)=Net::SSLeay::get_https("www.openssl.org", 443, "/"); print $p' The mission of Net::SSLeay is to provide simple (easy to use?) API to SSL specific parts and few support functions of SSLeay/OpenSSL. I presume Eric's module will evolve to provide API to all crypto available in SSLeay. I will make an effort to maintain this module in sync with newest SSLeay/OpenSSL versions in future. ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Automated List Manager [EMAIL PROTECTED]