in reply to Re^2: IO::Socket::SSL + fork problem
in thread IO::Socket::SSL + fork problem

The probable reason it works on windows and not linux is that fork under windows is really just a thread, so the "forked child" is actually still a part of the same process, (which according to anonymonk above is important to ssl connections?).

That suggests a possible way forward would be to use threads rather than fork, which would (might) get around the problem on both platforms. Of course, it might create others.

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