Greetings Bros. I had a script that was accessing a PlantLink sensor API that was working
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use JSON;
use Data::Dumper;
require LWP::UserAgent;
my $plantinfo;
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
my $req = HTTP::Request->new(GET => 'https://dashboard.myplantlink.com
+/api/v1/plants');
$req->authorization_basic('[hide]','[hide]');
my $response = $ua->request($req);
if ($response->is_success) {
    $plantinfo = decode_json $response->decoded_content;
 }
else {
    print "Error: ",$response->status_line;
    exit;
}

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Recently, maybe a month ago, it started throwing error "certificate verify failed." I did some searching around on this error and found this node that says the person solved it by adding ssl_opts => { verify_hostname => 1, SSL_ca_file => '/path/to/servers/ca-bundle'} to LWP::UserAgent->new(). How do I find that path on Windows?

Also it seems strange that the code above was working recently because most of the posts I found on this (including the one linked) are from a couple of years ago. What could have changed?

"I think computers have complicated lives very bigly. The whole age of, you know, computer has made it where nobody knows exactly what's going on." --D. Trump

In reply to LWP::UserAgent certificate verify failed by cormanaz

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