Error connecting to Https URLs when trying with www:: mechanize

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi Monks,

what could be the possible cause of this WARNINGS? i can make the SSL warnig stop but still error connecting to URL is there.

*******************************************************************
 Using the default of SSL_verify_mode of SSL_VERIFY_NONE for client
 is deprecated! Please set SSL_verify_mode to SSL_VERIFY_PEER
 together with SSL_ca_file|SSL_ca_path for verification.
 If you really don't want to verify the certificate and keep the
 connection open to Man-In-The-Middle attacks please set
 SSL_verify_mode explicitly to SSL_VERIFY_NONE in your application.
*******************************************************************
  at C:/Perl/lib/LWP/Protocol/http.pm line 31.
Error connecting to URL https://careers-ketchum.icims.com/jobs/search?
+ss=1&searc
hKeyword=&searchLocation=&searchCategory. Restart script required...
(Error GETing https://careers-ketchum.icims.com/jobs/search?ss=1&searc
+hKeyword=&
searchLocation=&searchCategory: Can't connect to careers-ketchum.icims
+.com:443 a
t C:\Users\Jingu\AppData\Local\Temp\dir8CA9.tmp\Save_content_test.pl l
+ine 31.
)
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thanks

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Re: Error connecting to Https URLs when trying with www:: mechanize by Corion (Patriarch) on Jul 25, 2013 at 07:00 UTC
I'm not sure what your question is about here? The warning is because you use the default of `SSL_verify_mode`, which is `SSL_VERIFY_NONE`. This default is deprecated because it leads to a sense of false security as it allows easy man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks. The error you are getting is likely unrelated to that warning. It means that you can't connect to the host. Maybe there is a proxy between the two machines? Maybe you need to set up `$ENV{HTTPS_PROXY}` properly. As you don't show the relevant code, it's hard to advise further.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Error connecting to Https URLs when trying with www:: mechanize by Loops (Curate) on Jul 25, 2013 at 07:15 UTC
You provided even less information than last time SSL VERIFY NONE ERROR + Error Connecting Warning in a www:mechanize script! What have you done to debug the problem? Are you able to use telnet or netcat to connect to that remote machine from the command line?	[reply]