Thanks! I think I am starting to understand. Below is my code. It hangs during the post and I am sure that it is incorrect, but do not know why. In poking around the documentation, it shows the URL:PORT which in my case is 443. I am believing that LWP is actually attempting a HTTP post to the URL on port 443 - but I need it to do a HTTPS post. I believe this because when I open a browser with the same URL:443, it hangs as well. I installed OpenSSL to its own directory, but see no mention that it is being accessed via LWP.

require 'c:\ken2\config.pl';
use strict;
use warnings;
use LWP::UserAgent;
use Crypt::SSLeay;

my $url = "https://secure_URL_here/";
print "$url\n";
my $port = 443;

my $lwp = LWP::UserAgent->new( );
print "here\n";

my $response = $lwp->post("$url:443", DATA=>our $USER, DATA=>our $PASS
+ );

if($response->is_success){
    print $response->content;
}
else{
    print $response->status_line, "\n";
}

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In reply to Re^4: Crypt::SSLeay performing a HTTP POST by kbarker
in thread Crypt::SSLeay performing a HTTP POST by kbarker

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