Hi- I'm trying to call a rest API using the Perl module REST::Client. The end point URL uses https protocol and when run my Perl script to connect and get a reponse from the API, i get 500 Can't connect to <api host domain>:443 (connect: Connection refused) error. When i use the exact end point URL via a browser, i get valid response. I looked up this error and found some suggestions around turning off host verification to get around this error, but, that didn't help either. Is there anything else that i can try to prevent this error?

#!/usr/bin/perl

use REST::Client;

#$ENV{PERL_LWP_SSL_VERIFY_HOSTNAME}=0; #Intentionally commented this o
+ut as i was trying multiple opions to turn off host verification

MAIN:
{

my $client = REST::Client->new(
        timeout => 30,
        ssl_opts => { verify_hostname => 0 },);
        
        $client->GET(<end point url>);

        #assigning the API response to a variable
        my $response = $client->responseContent();
        print $response."\n";
}

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In reply to REST::Client 500 Error by ty_sopw

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