I have an application for creating online courses at a university. A professor requests a course on server A. Upon approval by the sysadmin, their data is XMLized and transmitted to the appropriate course server with an authorization code, where the XML is parsed and the course is created. Right now I'm doing this with IO::Socket and everything works great.

The problem is, now I want to create these courses on servers running SSL instead of just HTTP. I would prefer to use IO::Socket::SSL, and just create a secure socket instead of an insecure one, keeping my code mostly the same. But I'm having a very difficult time getting this to work, mostly because I can't find documentation. What I would really like is some example code of what it looks like to open a secure socket, but also some back story to the process. The error I keep getting is unable to create socket: No such file or directory The code I'm using is 

my $socket = IO::Socket::SSL->new(
                        PeerAddr => "$remote_host:$remote_port",
                        PeerPort => $remote_port,
                        Proto    => "tcp",       
                        SSL_verify_mode=>0x01
                        ) or die "unable to create socket: $!\n";;

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What file is it missing? Where can I find documentation on the methods for IO::Socket::SSL (they aren't in the README)? Should I give up and use LWP instead? Either way, I seem to be missing something big regarding "having the certificate of the site I'm trying to connect to" (I keep seeing references to that, but I don't know how to do it.)

Any help is humbly and gratefully requested. Thank you.

In reply to POSTing data via SSL by eldritch

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