It just dawned on me that all that $ENV{HTTPS_CERT_FILE} stuff is probably the root of your problems.

Check you Net::LDAPS documentation on passing this information through the constructor.

Also take a look at LWP::Protocol::https10.

#
# $Id: https10.pm,v 1.1 2001/10/26 17:27:19 gisle Exp $

use strict;

package LWP::Protocol::https10;

# Figure out which SSL implementation to use
use vars qw($SSL_CLASS);
if ($IO::Socket::SSL::VERSION) {
    $SSL_CLASS = "IO::Socket::SSL"; # it was already loaded
} else {
    eval { require Net::SSL; };     # from Crypt-SSLeay
    if ($@) {
    require IO::Socket::SSL;
    $SSL_CLASS = "IO::Socket::SSL";
    } else {
    $SSL_CLASS = "Net::SSL";
    }
}
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Examine $LWP::Protocol::https10::SSL_CLASS after creating a HTTPS request, before you request it or something, and make sure it points to Net::SSL

I don't know how significant, but the IO::Socket::SLL pod says

Currently, the IO::Socket::INET interface as implemented by this package is not quite complete. There can be only one SSL context at a given time.

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