Thank you for sharing some Input. I have installed the Crypt::SSLeay Module and activated(?) it with use Net::SSL;, but now it can't even fetch the first url, which was, by the way, already an https site.

Error as follows: Can't connect to www.url.com:443 (Crypt-SSLeay can't verify hostnames) at messing_around.plx line 12. Line 12 is $derp -> get($url);

Was it already using some other https module by default?