I'm probably missing something incredibly obvious, but I simply can't get LWP to stop trying to verify certificates -- and I've read everything I could find on the topic. Here's my code:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use LWP::UserAgent;
use IO::Socket::SSL;
use Data::Dumper;

$ENV{PERL_LWP_SSL_VERIFY_HOSTNAME} = 0;
my $bot = LWP::UserAgent->new( 
    env_proxy => 1, 
    keep_alive => 1, 
    timeout => 300, 
    ssl_opts => { 
        verify_hostname => 0, 
        SSL_verify_mode => IO::Socket::SSL::SSL_VERIFY_NONE 
    },
); 
my @headers = (
    'User-Agent'        => 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:19.
+0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/19.0',
    'Accept-Language'    => 'ie-ee,en;q=0.7,ru;q=0.3',
    'Accept-Encoding'    => 'gzip, deflate',
    'Accept'            => "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,applicatio
+n/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8",
    'Cache-Control'        => 'max-age=0'
);
my $uri='https://www.something.com';
my $response = $bot->get($uri,@headers);
    
print Dumper($response);

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This yields the following response:

$VAR1 = bless( {
                 '_content' => 'Can\'t connect to www.something.com:44
+3 (certificate verify failed)

LWP::Protocol::https::Socket: SSL connect attempt failed error:1409008
+6:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed 
+at /usr/local/share/perl5/LWP/Protocol/http.pm line 47.
',
                 '_rc' => 500,
                 '_headers' => bless( {
                                        'client-warning' => 'Internal 
+response',
                                        'client-date' => 'Sat, 30 May 
+2015 07:38:43 GMT',
                                        'content-type' => 'text/plain'
+,
                                        '::std_case' => {
                                                          'client-warn
+ing' => 'Client-Warning',
                                                          'client-date
+' => 'Client-Date'
                                                        }
                                      }, 'HTTP::Headers' ),
                 '_msg' => 'Can\'t connect to www.something.com:443 (c
+ertificate verify failed)',
                 '_request' => bless( {
                                        '_content' => '',
                                        '_uri' => bless( do{\(my $o = 
+'https://www.something.com')}, 'URI::https' ),
                                        '_headers' => bless( {
                                                               'user-a
+gent' => 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:19.0) Gecko/20100101
+ Firefox/19.0',
                                                               'cache-
+control' => 'max-age=0',
                                                               'accept
+' => 'text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
+',
                                                               'accept
+-language' => 'ie-ee,en;q=0.7,ru;q=0.3',
                                                               'accept
+-encoding' => 'gzip, deflate'
                                                             }, 'HTTP:
+:Headers' ),
                                        '_method' => 'GET'
                                      }, 'HTTP::Request' )
               }, 'HTTP::Response' );

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I had thought that the ssl_opts I set would prevent the UA from even trying to verify the certificates. Then I threw in $ENV{PERL_LWP_SSL_VERIFY_HOSTNAME} = 0; for good measure.

What am I doing wrong?

In reply to Disable SSL certificate verification with LWP by tunafish

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