You're right. I realized after I thought about it a bit that the poster was asking about doing that over a secure server, but what I did should work.

I wrote that code about a year ago and hadn't discovered the LWP library at the time. Using LWP and mirroring to check for newer versions would probably be the way to go. And the LWP suggestion is going to get implemented as soon as I get a bit of free time. Thanks for that!

There is no emoticon for what I'm feeling now.