Thanks, BrowserUk(++)
- I did extract and install the SSLeay32.dll from http://opensores.thebunker.net/pub/mirrors/SSLeay/binaries/SSLeay-0.8.1-DSA-msw32.zip. This fixed the original issue with the popup, but brought out new issues:

Application popup: perl.exe - Ordinal Not Found : The ordinal 99 could not be located in the dynamic link library LIBEAY32.dll.

After extracting and copying LIBEAY32.dll, I get the same popup, except it is looking for ordinal 115.

It looks like these dll's are not compatible with my version of SSLeay.

I looked at http://www.bacus.pt/Net_SSLeay/, which says that SSLeay is obsolete/unsupported - go look at http://www.openssl.org/. Now I'm getting lost and confused - what module(s) should I be using to get https pages under win32? Sample code, anyone ?