Perl HTTPS support is a complete mess.
I don't know the prognosis, I dont know if anyone is taking ownership of it.
At one time, you could simply plug the very latest ssleay into
crypt-ssleay.pm and lwp, and the world was good.
That is no longer the case.
Here are some options:
1. Compile the now-archaic and unsupported SSLeay 0.6.6, Crypt::SSLeay.pm
Perl module and finally LWP. HTTPs URLs should now work, but you need to
support the legacy ssleay.
2. Create your queries with LWP and pipe them through the openssl
executable. This works but is an obvious kludge since you are piping to a
seperate process.
3. Try various legacy distributions of ssleay/openssl with Net::SSLeay.pm
module, which frequently produces a lot of useless warnings and has a klunky
HTTP query interface.
4. There is some new module:
ftp://ftp.cise.ufl.edu/pub/perl/CPAN/authors/id/A/AS/ASPA/
which supposedly lets a hacked LWP use Net::SSLeay as an SSL tunnel ala
Crypt::SSLeay/LWP.
Good luck.
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Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 1999 12:16 PM
Subject: using ssl with Perl LWP
> A while ago I was investigating writing some perl that would do a
> post using HTTPS on NT. I needed the ssl package and one of the perl
> pages that would give me the infrastructure I needed. After lots of
> compile problems and the help of a bunch of folks on this list I was
> able to get past the compile problems. So my question is has anyone
> else put together the pieces to do SSL using the LWP perl interface
> to exchange data with a web server that runs SSL.
>
> Any info would be greatly appreciated
>
> Thanks
>
> Doug
>
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