$ cat testSSL.pl
# https-test.pl - HTTPS GET example
#
# c Copyright, 2004-2005 By John Bokma, http://johnbokma.com/
#
# Last updated: 2006-05-22 18:54:19 -0500
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use warnings;
use LWP::Debug qw(+);


use LWP::UserAgent;

my $url = 'https://www.helsinki.fi/';

my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
my $response = $ua->get( $url );

$response->is_success or
    die "Failed to GET '$url': ", $response->status_line;

print $response->as_string;

Here is the result:

$ perl testSSL.pl
LWP::UserAgent::new: ()
LWP::UserAgent::request: ()
LWP::UserAgent::send_request: GET https://www.helsinki.fi/
LWP::UserAgent::_need_proxy: Not proxied
LWP::UserAgent::request: Simple response: Not Implemented
Failed to GET 'https://www.helsinki.fi/': 501 Protocol scheme 'https' is not sup
ported (Crypt::SSLeay not installed) at testSSL.pl line 19.

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