I am attempting to use LWP to connect to a https url and have run into a problem.

Whenever trying to contact any SSL server other than the one on the same machine, the SSL negotiation fails with:

500 SSL negotiation failed:; Resource temporarily unavailable at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/sparc64-linux/Net/SSL.pm line 138.

The machine in question is not using a proxy and 443 is not being blocked by the firewall which I verified by telneting to various known web servers at 443 from the machine in question.

I tested it against another server here and the request never even hits the server so this leads me to believe there is a problem on the socket level. The machine in question is a sparc running linux and it wouldn't be the first time I have encountered a problem with LWP. (After upgrading last year to a newer rev of LWP, all LWP::Simple::get()'s (and only get) would mysteriously fail unless you prepended a space to the url. !?! The newest version of LWP does not have this problem, btw)

I've gone through the various modules socket modules used by LWP to troubleshoot but I must admit, it's beyond me.

I guess my question is this, when specifying an Internet style socket, are requests that are addressed to the originating machine handled any differently internally than requests that are addressed to a different IP?

If anyone has a suggestion as to where to start looking for the problem or any suggestions, your help would be very appreciated. 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use LWP;
use LWP::Debug qw(+);
use LWP::UserAgent;
use LWP::Protocol::https;



my $connect = new LWP::UserAgent;
my $request = new HTTP::Request 'GET', 'https://www.thawte.com';
my $response = $connect->request($request);

print $response;


print $response->content;
print $response->as_string;

[download]
OUTPUTS
LWP::UserAgent::new: ()
LWP::UserAgent::request: ()
LWP::UserAgent::simple_request: GET https://www.thawte.com/
LWP::UserAgent::_need_proxy: Not proxied
LWP::Protocol::http::request: ()
LWP::UserAgent::request: Simple response: Internal Server Error
HTTP::Response=HASH(0x38994c)500 (Internal Server Error)
SSL negotiation failed:; Resource temporarily unavailable at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/sparc64-linux/Net/SSL.pm line 138.
Client-Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 02:50:11 GMT


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In reply to Socket problems and SSL by shotgunefx

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