I am new to perl, and trying to figure out how to connect to remote host using perl. I have Client certificate that I need to pass in the http request to authenticate, I wrote this simple script to test it out but I get an error from it.

The file cert.crt has certificate and private key Thanks!

response ---500 Can't connect to something.com:443 (certificate verify failed) Content-Type: text/plain Client-Date: Mon, 13 May 2013 18:38:20 GMT Client-Warning: Internal response Can't connect to something.com:443 (certificate verify failed) LWP::Protocol::https::Socket: SSL connect attempt failed with unknown error error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/LWP/Protocol/http.pm line 51. 

#!/usr/bin/perl -l

use strict;
use warnings;
use HTTP::Headers;
use HTTP::Request;
use LWP::UserAgent;

my $UPDATE_SERVER = "https://something.com";


my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new(
    verify_hostname => 0,
    SSL_ca_file     => 'cert.crt',
);
$ua->timeout(10);
$ua->agent("");


my $req = HTTP::Request->new( GET => $UPDATE_SERVER );
my $res = $ua->request($req);

print "header ----" . $res->headers_as_string;
print "response ---" . $res->as_string;

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In reply to LWP UserAgent - Sending Client Certificate connect to remote host by kabachaa

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