LWP::Protocol::https(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation				 LWP::Protocol::https(3pm)

NAME

       LWP::Protocol::https - Provide https support for LWP::UserAgent

SYNOPSIS

	 use LWP::UserAgent;

	 $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new(ssl_opts => { verify_hostname => 1 });
	 $res = $ua->get("https://www.example.com");

DESCRIPTION

       The LWP::Protocol::https module provides support for using https schemed URLs with LWP.	This module is a plug-in to the LWP protocol
       handling, so you don't use it directly.	Once the module is installed LWP is able to access sites using HTTP over SSL/TLS.

       If hostname verification is requested by LWP::UserAgent's "ssl_opts", and neither "SSL_ca_file" nor "SSL_ca_path" is set, then
       "SSL_ca_file" is implied to be the one provided by Mozilla::CA.	If the Mozilla::CA module isn't available SSL requests will fail.  Either
       install this module, set up an alternative "SSL_ca_file" or disable hostname verification.

       This module used to be bundled with the libwww-perl, but it was unbundled in v6.02 in order to be able to declare its dependencies properly
       for the CPAN tool-chain.  Applications that need https support can just declare their dependency on LWP::Protocol::https and will no longer
       need to know what underlying modules to install.

SEE ALSO

       IO::Socket::SSL, Crypt::SSLeay, Mozilla::CA

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright 1997-2011 Gisle Aas.

       This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

perl v5.14.2							    2012-02-20						 LWP::Protocol::https(3pm)