Thanks for your response. I am actually using SSL v1.997 (the latest from cpan). The SSL Server code was based on an example file came with IO-Socket-1.997 package, so are you suggesting that I should not be using the default certificates (/certs dir), but with explicit configuration like this: 
SSL_cert_file => 'server-cert.pem',
SSL_key_file => 'server-key.pem',

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I think the example code just prints out the client certificate if available for demo purpose. Yes, it doesn't do anything with the client certificate at all. What I am trying to do is, to have a SSL server that reads a text request, and then sends back a text response. It doesn't need to have client authentication (yet), I just try to get something basic working first.

In reply to Re^2: Perl SSL Socket Server fails to receive from Java SSL Socket Client by Anonymous Monk
in thread Perl SSL Socket Server fails to receive from Java SSL Socket Client by Anonymous Monk

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