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.
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