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

So what's the easies way to interact with an SSL site?

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Re: SSL
by IlyaM (Parson) on Dec 13, 2001 at 20:35 UTC
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      But to do that, I have to install OpenSSL, right? Well, when I unpack it, I find an "apps" directory. I can't seems to run config or make on it, in any directory.
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        Do you mean that if you unpack OpenSSL distro you can find only 'apps' directory? If so than you have downloaded corrupted archive file. There should be more directories.

        --
        Ilya Martynov (http://martynov.org/)

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Re: SSL
by Rhandom (Curate) on Dec 13, 2001 at 21:53 UTC
    There is a brand new version of Net::SSLeay that could help.

    If you are used to doing command line telneting to servers to probe around, you could always use stunnel (takes whatever you type and turns it into a secure client connection -- it is also very useful for turning an insecure server into a SSL server).

    my @a=qw(random brilliant braindead); print $a[rand(@a)];

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      Well, here's my situation. I have been developing a tool using Perl for testing an online application. Now my boss says I need to make it work with an SSL server as well. I would like to avoid rewriting all of the modules I've created. Is there a way to make this transparent, so I simply install a module and "use" it? I finally got openssl to install, but when I try to create the makefile for SSLeay, it asks "Which SSLeay do you want to link against?". What does this mean?
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        you could try using CPAN to install it.. perl -MCPAN -e install Net::SSLeay
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