Esteemed monks,
I am running the following code on Linux to access https://google.co.uk via an internal proxy

#!/usr/bin/perl
 use strict;
 use warnings;
 use LWP::UserAgent;
 use MIME::Base64;
 use Data::Dumper;

my $url='https://google.co.uk';
$ENV{'HTTP_PROXY'}="http://websense:8080";
$ENV{'HTTPS_PROXY'}="http://websense:8080";
$ENV{PERL_LWP_SSL_VERIFY_HOSTNAME}=0;
$ENV{HTTP_DEBUG}=1;
my $ua=LWP::UserAgent->new('env_proxy'=>1,ssl_opts=>{verify_hostname=>
+0});
$ua->env_proxy();

my $result=$ua->get($url);
print("\n $@");

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I get the following error:

 Can't connect to google.co.uk:443 (Bad hostname)

LWP::Protocol::https::Socket: Bad hostname 'google.co.uk' at /usr/loca
+l/perl/lib/site_perl/LWP/Protocol/http.pm line 47.

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If I run this script by changing the URL to 'http', i.e. insecure URL, I get the results from google.co.uk. Whereas 'httpS' returns the above error.

I have looked at various internet forums and can't figure out how to fix this. I have also tried to fetch https://google.co.uk from 'curl' command using the proxy and that returns a result. This clearly indicates there is something in my Perl script that I need to do.

Can you help?

In reply to LWP::UserAgent - Problem with httpS URL access via proxy by sumeetgrover

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