This is a pretty straight-forward question, so I'm hoping there might be an easy answer as well.

I'm trying to build a little screen-scraping script using WWW::Mechanize on WinXP. I need to access some HTTPS sites, so I've installed Crypt::SSLeay using ppm3. I'm using ActiveState Perl 5.6.1, and unfortunately getting a better version will be involve a great deal of trauma.

Here's a test script:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use LWP::UserAgent;

my $url = 'https://www.helsinki.fi';

my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
my $response = $ua->get($url);

$response->is_success or 
    die "Failed to GET '$url': ",$response->status_line;

print $response->as_string;

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When I run this, the response is:

Failed to GET 'https://www.helsinki.fi/': 500 SSL negotiation failed: 
+at P:\Perl\bin/ssltest.bat line 15.

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Does anyone know what problem this error message indicates?

I installed the necessary libraries, libeay32.dll and ssleay32.dll, in C:\Perl\bin during the ppm3 installation of Crypt::SSLeay. I don't have access to a compiler, so I can't compile OpenSSL myself.

Any and all advice is appreciated! Thanks very much.

In reply to "SSL negotiation failed" using WWW::Mechanize and Crypt::SSLeay on WinXP by mickey

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