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... if that library is installed, and a C compiler is installed. Both of which are close prerequisites to getting SSL working.

A statically linked wget or curl binary is more likely to be available in cases where SSL libraries are unavailable.

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Re^4: Get https simple solution desired
by hippo (Archbishop) on Jun 01, 2018 at 10:40 UTC
    if that library is installed

    If the curl executable is installed and working how could the library not be present? I suppose they could have a statically-compiled curl but I've never seen that in the wild.

    and a C compiler is installed

    Good point. That's the much more likely blocker I think. If I were Yahoo (and thank the Old Gods and the New that I am not) there wouldn't be a compiler on these customer-accessible nodes either.

    Is there a pure-perl SSL implementation somewhere on CPAN or did I just dream that?

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