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I have a wierd problem where if I telnet to an https host on the port (443 or 8443) and/or use curl to post to the same url all works OK. However, if I use LWP::UserAgent I get an error 500 - cannot connect to $site.

I am using some very simple code:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use LWP::UserAgent;
use Data::Dumper;

my $host = 'localhost';
my $port = '8443';
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new(ssl_opts => { verify_hostname => 0});
$ua->agent("Mozilla/29.0");
my $req = HTTP::Request->new( GET => "https://$host:$port" );
$req->header( 'Accept' => 'text/html' );
my $res = $ua->request($req);
print Dumper $res;

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This code returns an error 500
However, curl or a simple telnet to the same host:port gets a connection (although obviously encrytped in the telnet connection)
Would anyone have any ideas!?

EDIT: Added my declaration per strict etc....

In reply to LWP SSL Question by packetstormer

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