Hey Folks,

I've been using code like the following:

use LWP;
use strict;

my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
$ua->timeout(10);
$ua->env_proxy;

my $response = $ua->get("https://cnn.com/");

if ($response->is_success) {
    print "Yay!";
    # process success
} else {
    print "Rats!";
    # process failure
}

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to retrieve documents off the internet. The problem comes when you try to retrieve an https document. You get neither a success nor a fail indication, but rather a fatal library error:

Free to wrong pool 2f5840 not 8900000f60944183 at C:/Perl64/lib/IO/Soc
+ket/SSL.pm
 line 2739.

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I contacted Activestate and they acknowledge that it's their bug. They say that versions of Net-SSLeay prior to 1.85 are not thread safe, and this is the reason for the crash.

You can check the following link to see when Net-SSLeay gets upgraded:

https://platform.activestate.com/ActiveState/ActivePerl-5.28/customize

Thanks,

Lars

In reply to Net-SSLeay problem in perl for Windows by lbrandewie

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