I found a 5.18 perl on a network adjacent SuSE 12sp1 server

me@linux:/home/rpollard> export HTTPS_PROXY='http://user:pass@proxy:80
+80'
me@linux:/home/rpollard> echo $HTTPS_PROXY
http://user:pass@proxy:8080

me@linux:/home/rpollard> curl https://www.google.com
<HTML><HEAD><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset
+=utf-8">
<TITLE>302 Moved</TITLE></HEAD><BODY>
<H1>302 Moved</H1>
The document has moved
<A HREF="https://www.google.se/?gfe_rd=cr&amp;ei=6T-MWJGBLsiq8weZ_YCIA
+Q">here</A>.
</BODY></HTML>

me@linux:/home/rpollard> perl GetTest.pl
400 Bad Request at GetTest.pl line 16.

me@linux:/home/rpollard> unset HTTPS_PROXY
me@linux:/home/rpollard> echo $HTTPS_PROXY

me@linux:/home/rpollard> curl https://www.google.com
curl: (6) Could not resolve host: www.google.com
me@linux:/home/rpollard> perl GetTest.pl
500 Can't connect to google.com:443 (Bad hostname) at GetTest.pl line 
+16.
me@linux:/home/rpollard> perl -v

This is perl 5, version 18, subversion 2 (v5.18.2) built for x86_64-li
+nux-thread-multi

Copyright 1987-2013, Larry Wall

Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License
+ or the
GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5 source ki
+t.

Complete documentation for Perl, including FAQ lists, should be found 
+on
this system using "man perl" or "perldoc perl".  If you have access to
+ the
Internet, point your browser at http://www.perl.org/, the Perl Home Pa
+ge.

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That is using the same test script as in the root node. I think this shows both curl and perl are using the same HTTPS_PROXY here. Now I have a more modern Perl, I will install LWP::ConsoleLogger and see what that tells me.

Cheers,
R.

Pereant, qui ante nos nostra dixerunt!

In reply to Re^2: HTTPS returning 400 from Linux but 200 OK from Windows by Random_Walk
in thread HTTPS returning 400 from Linux but 200 OK from Windows by Random_Walk

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