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

Hey there,
I have a pretty perplexing problem. I'm trying to post data to a secure site. The ISP I have has Crypt::SSLeay installed as a module, but I continue to get the following error:

ctx is not an Crypt::SSLeay::CTX, <POSTDATA> chunk 1.

Here's the code: 


use LWP::UserAgent;
use Crypt::SSLeay;

$hdrs = new HTTP::Headers(Accept => 'text/plain', User-Agent => 'MegaB
+rowser/1.0');
$url = new URI::URL('https://payflowlink.verisign.com/payflowlink.cfm'
+);
$url = new URI::URL('https://www.nodeworks.com');
$req = new HTTP::Request('GET', $url, $hdrs);
$ua = new LWP::UserAgent;
$resp = $ua->request($req);
if ($resp->is_success) {
        print "did work.  yay!";
        print $resp->content;
}
else {
        print "didn't work.\n";
        print $resp->message;
}

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Any idea what's going on? Thanks in advance!

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Re: CTX:SSLeay and https
by BeernuT (Pilgrim) on Mar 18, 2002 at 01:29 UTC
    You are missing 
    use URI::URL;

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    once I added that the code worked.
    Edit: After reviewing the code again I must add 
    use strict;
use warnings;

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    You define $url twice, and have a bareword 'User-Agent' which looks like it should be 'User_Agent'.

    -bn
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      This solves the problem. But I must say this: URI::URL is a deprecated/obsolete/whatever module, and is only provided for backwards compability. You should use the newer URI module instead. Raw URI has a nicer interface, I think anyway. Using obsolete modules is generally a bad thing to do, unless you really have to.


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      my one true love
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