Does anyone know a robust way to connect to a secure web server using HTTPS? I'm trying to port over some scripts that connect to web servers using the more conventional HTTP protocol. When I run the script, the response object comes back with a false is_success. I am presuming that I'm getting stopped by LWP::UserAgent, possibly because of an the (empty) proxy setting (I don't understand enough about the proxy parameter and unfortunately I don't have time at the moment to learn about it). Set on debug, I get the following information: 
LWP::UserAgent::new: ()
LWP::UserAgent::request: ()
LWP::UserAgent::simple_request: GET https://www.asecureserver.com/
LWP::UserAgent::_need_proxy: Not proxied
LWP::UserAgent::request: Simple response: Not Implemented
And here's the simplified script: 
#!\usr\bin\perl -w
use LWP;
use LWP::Debug '+';
require HTTP::Request;
use LWP::UserAgent;

use Carp;
use strict;

my ($url, $useragent, $request, $response, $response_text);

$url = 'https://www.asecureserver.com/'; # not a real url
$useragent = LWP::UserAgent->new;
$request = HTTP::Request->new('GET', $url);

$response = $useragent->request($request);

if ($response->is_success) {
   print $response->content;
}
else {
	 print 'Failed';
}
Any and all help is greatly appreciated.

In reply to HTTPS requests by Yukio

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