I'm having trouble getting the very simplest https application to work on ActiveState perl on Windows XP.

The error I get is a popup:
Application popup: perl.exe - Unable To Locate Component : This application has failed to start because SSLEAY32.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem.

After the popup, the output of the program is the text "501", which I believe is an http error number.

The dll indicated IS present, and in the right place (see "perl -V" below).
Update:The dll was absent after a successful ppm module install. See discussion below.

The code is straight from the sample in Crypt::SSLeay - 

use strict; # I added only  this line
use LWP::UserAgent;
  my $ua = new LWP::UserAgent;
  my $req = new HTTP::Request('GET', 'https://www.nodeworks.com');
  my $res = $ua->request($req);
  print $res->code."\n";

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Crypt:::SSLeay was installed using ppm. Install was successful: 
ppm> install Crypt-SSLeay
====================
Install 'Crypt-SSLeay' version 0.51 in ActivePerl 5.8.0.806.
====================
Downloaded 29927 bytes.
Extracting 15/15: blib/html/site/lib/Crypt/SSLeay.html
Installing D:\Perl\site\lib\auto\Crypt\SSLeay\SSLeay.dll
Installing D:\Perl\site\lib\auto\Crypt\SSLeay\SSLeay.lib
Installing D:\Perl\site\lib\auto\Crypt\SSLeay\SSLeay.exp
Installing D:\Perl\site\lib\auto\Crypt\SSLeay\SSLeay.bs
Installing D:\Perl\html\site\lib\Crypt\SSLeay.html
Installing D:\Perl\site\lib\Net\SSL.pm
Installing D:\Perl\site\lib\Crypt\SSLeay.pm
Installing D:\Perl\site\lib\Crypt\SSLeay\X509.pm
Installing D:\Perl\site\lib\Crypt\SSLeay\MainContext.pm
Installing D:\Perl\site\lib\Crypt\SSLeay\Conn.pm
Installing D:\Perl\site\lib\Crypt\SSLeay\CTX.pm
Installing D:\Perl\site\lib\Crypt\SSLeay\Err.pm
Successfully installed Crypt-SSLeay version 0.51 in ActivePerl 5.8.0.8
+06.
ppm>

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Perl paths are also fine : 
>perl -V
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 0) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=MSWin32, osvers=4.0, archname=MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
    uname=''
    config_args='undef'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=undef
    usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=define usemultip
+licity=def
ine
    useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
    use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
    usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cl', ccflags ='-nologo -Gf -W3 -MD -Zi -DNDEBUG -O1 -DWIN32 -D
+_CONSOLE -
DNO_STRICT -DHAVE_DES_FCRYPT  -DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_
+SYS -DUSE_
PERLIO -DPERL_MSVCRT_READFIX',
    optimize='-MD -Zi -DNDEBUG -O1',
    cppflags='-DWIN32'
    ccversion='', gccversion='', gccosandvers=''
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234
    d_longlong=undef, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=10
    ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='__int64
+', lseeksi
ze=8
    alignbytes=8, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='link', ldflags ='-nologo -nodefaultlib -debug -opt:ref,icf  -l
+ibpath:"D:
\Perl\lib\CORE"  -machine:x86'
    libpth="E:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET\FrameworkSDK
+\Lib\" "D:
\Perl\lib\CORE"
    libs=  oldnames.lib kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib winspool.lib
+  comdlg32
.lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib ole32.lib oleaut32.lib  netapi32.lib uui
+d.lib wsoc
k32.lib mpr.lib winmm.lib  version.lib odbc32.lib odbccp32.lib msvcrt.
+lib
    perllibs=  oldnames.lib kernel32.lib user32.lib gdi32.lib winspool
+.lib  comd
lg32.lib advapi32.lib shell32.lib ole32.lib oleaut32.lib  netapi32.lib
+ uuid.lib
wsock32.lib mpr.lib winmm.lib  version.lib odbc32.lib odbccp32.lib msv
+crt.lib
    libc=msvcrt.lib, so=dll, useshrplib=yes, libperl=perl58.lib
    gnulibc_version='undef'
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_win32.xs, dlext=dll, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
    cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags='-dll -nologo -nodefaultlib -debug -opt:
+ref,icf  -
libpath:"D:\Perl\lib\CORE"  -machine:x86'


Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
  Compile-time options: MULTIPLICITY USE_ITHREADS USE_LARGE_FILES PERL
+_IMPLICIT_
CONTEXT PERL_IMPLICIT_SYS
  Locally applied patches:
        ActivePerl Build 806
  Built under MSWin32
  Compiled at Mar 31 2003 00:45:44
  @INC:
    D:/Perl/lib
    D:/Perl/site/lib
    .

E:\Documents and Settings\vijay\test>dir D:\Perl\site\lib\auto\Crypt\S
+SLeay\SSLe
ay.dll
 Volume in drive D is Datum
 Volume Serial Number is 08B1-4974

 Directory of D:\Perl\site\lib\auto\Crypt\SSLeay

11/10/2003  11:17 PM            32,768 SSLeay.dll
               1 File(s)         32,768 bytes
               0 Dir(s)   8,527,851,520 bytes free

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Edit: BazB, removed colour font tags.

In reply to Crypt::SSLeay problems on Win32 by NetWallah

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