Brothers & Sisters in Perl,

I was writing some code to access my Flickr account, when I happened to have to access a resource over an SSL connection (https-protocol).

Much to my surprise, LWP failed to access this resource and gave me a most strange error: 

Can't connect to api.flickr.com:443
Bad file descriptor at d:/Perl/perl/site/lib/LWP/Protocol/http.pm line
+ 41.

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The code I used was a very simple 
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
my $req = HTTP::Request->new( GET => 'https://api.flickr.com/services/
+rest');
my $response = $ua->request($req);

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Note that LWP makes the connection if I change 'https' by 'http'. Of course the webserver then refuses to return the requested resource as it requires an SSL connection.

Note also that the error message refers to the LWP::Protocol::http-module, rather than the LWP::Protocol::https-module, as one should expect.

Both modules are installed and up-to-date. Net::SSL is also installed and up-to-date (version 2.86).

I am running Strawberry Perl 18.2 on a Windows 8.1 machine.

Anyone any ideas how to make this work?

Update: Adding the ssl_opts and protocols_allowed parameters solved the problem. Thanks all!

CountZero

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In reply to LWP not working with HTTPS protocol (SOLVED) by CountZero

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