Hey guys and gals. I made this little test script to troubleshoot my logging into Yahoo.com (or the apparent inablility to do so within another script I'm writing). Now I know there's other pre-fab Yahoo modules and such, but I'm just trying to do my own thing and learn along the way. 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use WWW::Mechanize;
use HTML::TokeParser;


my $login = "xxxxxxxxxx";
my $password = "xxxxxxx";
my $url = "http://login.yahoo.com/config/login?";

my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new();
$mech->get($url);
$mech->form();
$mech->field("login","$login");
$mech->field("passwd","$password");
$mech->submit();

if ($mech->find_link( text => "Sign Out")){
    print "Success!\n"
}
else{
    print "Fail\n";
}
my $test = HTML::TokeParser->new(\$mech->{content});
my $text = $test->get_text;

print "$text";

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Basically, the idea here was to attempt a login, then determine a success or failure by finding the sign out link. At the end I threw in a small parse command so I could see what the script is seeing. That's when I found out Yahoo is throwing even the unsecured logins through an SSL link. Here's the output:

Fail
LWP will support https URLs if the Crypt::SSLeay module is installed. More information at

Now I've read a few (apparently uninformed) sites on the web, and they've mentioned that Mech handles SSL natively. Further research seems to disprove this. Is my only option going through the whole crazy process of installing OpenSSL and then Crypt::SSLeay? It seems like a long way around just to get logged in. Help?
Thanks!

In reply to Mech and SSL by SpacemanSpiff

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