If you are used to doing command line telneting to servers to probe around, you could always use stunnel (takes whatever you type and turns it into a secure client connection -- it is also very useful for turning an insecure server into a SSL server).
my @a=qw(random brilliant braindead); print $a[rand(@a)];
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