Hello Wise Monks. I'm getting an error that I can't connect to my ip using https. Here's my code. I replaced my real ip address with "myipaddress"

 
          $useragent=new LWP::UserAgent;
          $request=new HTTP::Request('GET', "https://myipaddress/somea
+pps/someapp.cgi");

          $result=$useragent->request($request);
          $placibo2[0]=$result->{_content};
          if ($placibo2[0])
          {
            print header;
            print $placibo2[0];
          }

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Should I set a value for $ENV{ HTTPS_CA_FILE }? If so, what value? I'm using a windows 2012 server to run the perl program. When I try to access https://www.google.com it works. If I try to access https://myipaddress from the browser on the server it works. When I try to access my ipaddress using https using the above code i get:

LWP::Protocol::https::Socket: SSL connect attempt failed with unknown error error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed

I also tried the following: $ENV{'PERL_LWP_SSL_VERIFY_HOSTNAME'} = 0 which worked. I was able to access my ip address using the above code but this is not secure and open to man in the middle attack. What should I now do? Thank you in advance for your wisdom.

In reply to https using lwp by Gorby

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