Net::SSL(3)						User Contributed Perl Documentation					       Net::SSL(3)

NAME

       Net::SSL - support for Secure Sockets Layer

METHODS

       new Creates a new "Net::SSL" object.

       configure
	   Configures a "Net::SSL" socket for operation.

       configure_certs
	   Sets up a certificate file to use for communicating with on the socket.

       connect
       die_with_error
       get_cipher
       get_lwp_object
	   Walks up the caller stack and looks for something blessed into the "LWP::UserAgent" namespace and returns it. Vaguely deprecated.

       get_peer_certificate
	   Gets the peer certificate from the underlying "Crypt::SSLeay::Conn" object.

       get_peer_verify
       get_shared_ciphers
       getchunk
	   Attempts to read up to 32KiB of data from the socket. Returns "undef" if nothing was read, otherwise returns the data as a scalar.

       getline
	   Reads one character at a time until a newline is encountered, and returns the line, including the newline. Grossly inefficient.

       print
	   Concatenates the input parameters and writes them to the socket.  Does not honour $, nor $/. Returns the number of bytes written.

       printf
	   Performs a "sprintf" of the input parameters (thus, the first parameter must be the format), and writes the result to the socket.
	   Returns the number of bytes written.

       proxy
	   Returns the hostname of an https proxy server, as specified by the "HTTPS_PROXY" environment variable.

       proxy_connect_helper
	   Helps set up a connection through a proxy.

       read
	   Performs a read on the socket and returns the result.

       ssl_context
       sysread
	   Is an alias of "read".

       timeout
	   Returns the timeout value of the socket as defined by the implementing class or 60 seconds by default.

       blocking
	   Returns a boolean indicating whether the underlying socket is in blocking mode. By default, Net::SSL sockets are in blocking mode.

	       $sock->blocking(0); # set to non-blocking mode

	   This method simply calls the underlying "blocking" method of the IO::Socket object.

       write
	   Writes the parameters passed in (thus, a list) to the socket. Returns the number of bytes written.

       syswrite
	   Is an alias of "write".

       accept
	   Not yet implemented. Will die if called.

       getc
	   Not yet implemented. Will die if called.

       getlines
	   Not yet implemented. Will die if called.

       ungetc
	   Not yet implemented. Will die if called.

       send_useragent_to_proxy
	   By default (as of version 2.80 of "Net::SSL" in the 0.54 distribution of Crypt::SSLeay), the user agent string is no longer sent to the
	   proxy (but will continue to be sent to the remote host).

	   The previous behaviour was of marginal benefit, and could cause fatal errors in certain scenarios (see CPAN bug #4759) and so no longer
	   happens by default.

	   To reinstate the old behaviour, call "Net::SSL::send_useragent_to_proxy" with a true value (usually 1).

DIAGNOSTICS

	 "no port given for proxy server <proxy>"

       A proxy was specified for configuring a socket, but no port number was given. Ensure that the proxy is specified as a host:port pair, such
       as "proxy.example.com:8086".

	 "configure certs failed: <contents of $@>; <contents of $!>"

	 "proxy connect failed: <contents of $@>; <contents of $!>"

	 "Connect failed: <contents of $@>; <contents of $!>"

       During connect().

   SEE ALSO
       IO::Socket::INET
	   "Net::SSL" is implemented by subclassing "IO::Socket::INET", hence methods not specifically overridden are defined by that package.

       Net::SSLeay
	   A package that provides a Perl-level interface to the "openssl" secure sockets layer library.

perl v5.16.3							    2012-07-30							       Net::SSL(3)