LWP::Protocol::https - Provide https support for LWP::UserAgent
use LWP::UserAgent;
$ua = LWP::UserAgent->new(ssl_opts => { verify_hostname => 1 });
$res = $ua->get("https://www.example.com");
# specify a CA path
$ua = LWP::UserAgent->new(
ssl_opts => {
SSL_ca_path => '/etc/ssl/certs',
verify_hostname => 1,
}
);
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.
IO::Socket::SSL, Crypt::SSLeay, Mozilla::CA
Copyright (c) 1997-2011 Gisle Aas.
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.