Back-story: I am fed up with SOAP::Lite. It's slow, buggy, not documented well enough, and I don't need what it does. I want to write something in its place, a server that accepts requests, does things, and returns something simple (like a single integer), and a client to talk to it. However, I want these programs to talk over secure sockets. Enter the dragon, IO::Socket::SSL.

I don't know what the hell I'm doing, though. As the Green Lady would say, I am "quite young" when it comes to SSL and public keys and private keys and the like. Here is my predicament. What do I have to do in order to set up a secure channel so that a client app must go through the proper hoops to talk to the server app? I've started reading an SSL how-to guide, but I'm not sure I understand it exactly. A lot of the resources I've found seem to be geared specifically towards HTTPS, and I'm not necessarily writing an HTTP server.

Jeff japhy Pinyan, P.L., P.M., P.O.D, X.S.: Perl, regex, and perl hacker
How can we ever be the sold short or the cheated, we who for every service have long ago been overpaid? ~~ Meister Eckhart

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