Gorby has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello Wise Monks.

When someone tells me that his machine will communicate with mine (and vice versa) using HTTPS, what does that mean? And do I need to install a new module to Perl in order to use HTTPS?

Thanks in advance.

Gorby

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Re: Perl with HTTPS
by tachyon (Chancellor) on May 18, 2004 at 06:58 UTC

    Have you heard of Google? Super Search? Have you ever bought anything on line? HTTPS is the secure version of HTTP (the ubiquitous Hyper Text Transport Protocol you are using right now to read this page). HTTPS uses SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) to allow secure(ish) connections. I suggest you have a look at (as a start):

    To answer you question the likely answer is yes you need more modules, probably libraries like openssl to generate your certificates and more research.

    cheers

    tachyon

Re: Perl with HTTPS
by Zaxo (Archbishop) on May 18, 2004 at 06:58 UTC

    It requires some form of Secure Socket Layer (SSL) library and http clients/server set up to use it. The result is http going encrypted over port 443. LWP::UserAgent can do the client-side role.

    After Compline,
    Zaxo

Re: Perl with HTTPS
by davido (Cardinal) on May 18, 2004 at 06:57 UTC