You'll want to read lwpcook on HTTPS, but just in case, here's the section I'm speaking of:

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URLs with https scheme are accessed in exactly the same way as with http scheme, provided that an SSL interface module for LWP has been properly installed (see the README.SSL file found in the libwww-perl distribution for more details). If no SSL interface is installed for LWP to use, then you will get ``501 Protocol scheme 'https' is not supported'' errors when accessing such URLs. Here's an example of fetching and printing a WWW page using SSL:

  use LWP::UserAgent;
  my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
  my $req = HTTP::Request->new(GET => 'https://www.helsinki.fi/');
  my $res = $ua->request($req);
  if ($res->is_success) {
      print $res->as_string;
  } else {
      print "Failed: ", $res->status_line, "\n";
  }
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Hope that helps.

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