Okay, I'll try not to get carried away here. I have come against an issue where I cannot POST to an https address without getting the following error (from the response object): 
501 (Not Implemented) Protocol scheme 'https' is not supported

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here is my code snippet: 
        use HTTP::Request;
        use LWP::UserAgent;

        $url = "https://some_web_site.com
        my $ua = new LWP::UserAgent;
        $ua->agent("Dell/0.1 ".$ua->agent);

        ### some things I was goofing with - didn't do much 
        #$ua->protocols_allowed( ['http','https'] ); 
        #if($ua->is_protocol_supported('https'))
        #{ print "HTTPS IS SUPPORTED!!!<br>"; }
        #else { print "HTTPS IS NOT SUPPORTED!!!<br>"; }
        #if($ua->is_protocol_supported('http'))
        #{ print "HTTP IS SUPPORTED!!!<br>"; }
        #else { print "HTTP IS NOT SUPPORTED!!!<br>"; }

        my $req = HTTP::Request->new('POST', $url);
        $req->content_type('text/xml');
        $req->content("some content here");

        my $res = $ua->request($req);
        if($res->is_success)
        {
                print "Ta da....successs!!!";
        }
        else
        {
                 # this usually returns: "501 'https' not implemented
                 print $res->as_string()."<hr>";
        }

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Some items of interest are:

  • The request never makes it to the designated url, so this error message must be coming from the originating server.
  • I CAN post to the http address fine
  • I am using perl v5.6.0 on Red-Hat 7.0
    This is an abbreviated version of my situation. I'm trying to spare the lengthy gory details until last resort.
    Thanks in advance.

    In reply to LWP::UserAgent https problems by Anonymous Monk

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