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LWP::Protocol::https(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation LWP::Protocol::https(3) 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 v5.16.3 2013-04-29 LWP::Protocol::https(3)
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Net::SSLGlue::LWP(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation Net::SSLGlue::LWP(3pm) NAME
Net::SSLGlue::LWP - proper certificate checking for https in LWP SYNOPSIS
use Net::SSLGlue::LWP SSL_ca_path => ...; use LWP::Simple; get( 'https://www....' ); { local %Net::SSLGlue::LWP::SSLopts = %Net::SSLGlue::LWP::SSLopts; # switch off verification $Net::SSLGlue::LWP::SSLopts{SSL_verify_mode} = 0; # or: set different verification policy, because cert does # not conform to RFC (wildcards in CN are not allowed for https, # but some servers do it anyway) $Net::SSLGlue::LWP::SSLopts{SSL_verifycn_scheme} = { wildcards_in_cn => 'anywhere', check_cn => 'always', }; } DESCRIPTION
Net::SSLGlue::LWP modifies Net::HTTPS and LWP::Protocol::https so that Net::HTTPS is forced to use IO::Socket::SSL instead of Crypt::SSLeay, and that LWP::Protocol::https does proper certificate checking using the "http" SSL_verify_scheme from IO::Socket::SSL. Because LWP does not have a mechanism to forward arbitrary parameters for the construction of the underlying socket these parameters can be set globally when including the package, or with local settings of the %Net::SSLGlue::LWP::SSLopts variable. All of the "SSL_*" parameter from IO::Socket::SSL can be used; the following parameters are especially useful: SSL_ca_path, SSL_ca_file Specifies the path or a file where the CAs used for checking the certificates are located. This is typically "etc/ssl/certs" on UNIX systems. SSL_verify_mode If set to 0, verification of the certificate will be disabled. By default it is set to 1 which means that the peer certificate is checked. SSL_verifycn_name Usually the name given as the hostname in the constructor is used to verify the identity of the certificate. If you want to check the certificate against another name you can specify it with this parameter. SEE ALSO
IO::Socket::SSL, LWP, Net::HTTPS, LWP::Protocol::https COPYRIGHT
This module is copyright (c) 2008, Steffen Ullrich. All Rights Reserved. This module is free software. It may be used, redistributed and/or modified under the same terms as Perl itself. perl v5.14.2 2011-08-29 Net::SSLGlue::LWP(3pm)