Uploading files to a HTTPS server

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

I finally managed to get the uploading of files to a HTTPS server working through a perl script run on the command line (thanks to perlmonks!!).

However, when I call the script via a browser, I get the error:

501 Protocol scheme 'https' is not supported (Crypt::SSLeay not installed)

I do have Crypt installed. The code for calling the perl script frmo the browser is

htp.formOpen(curl=>url,cmethod=>'POST');
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The perl code is

my $browser = LWP::UserAgent->new;
 my $response = $browser->post($url, Content_Type => "multipart/form-d
+ata", Content => [FILE1 => [$filename]]);
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Do I need to call the perl script in a different way from the browser if it is talking to a HTTPS server?

Thanks

Jonathan

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Re: Uploading files to a HTTPS server - 501 error by iburrell (Chaplain) on Jun 14, 2004 at 16:15 UTC
How are running from the browser? The first snippet of code looks like JavaScript. Where is the Perl script running from? You can't run the Perl script from inside a browser with JavaScript. I am guessing that you can use JavaScript to make the browser do the upload.	[reply]
Re^2: Uploading files to a HTTPS server - 501 error by Anonymous Monk on Jun 15, 2004 at 12:18 UTC
I am running the perl script via a shell script which just calls the perl script. This works fine from the command line. If I take the actual post command out of the perl script, then it also works fine when being called from the browser (i.e. all messages are displayed correcty and the script completes). However, when the post is run via the browser, I get the 501 error. The web server is on the same system as the scripts. The browser is on a PC. I am wondering if it is having problems loading the Crypt::SSLeay module when run from the browser. If i explicitly load this with "use", then the program crashes with no error messages when run from the browser, but works when run from the command line. This is how the shell script is called via the browser `htp.formOpen(curl=><address>script_name.sh? file_name,cmethod=>'POST'); htp.formSubmit(NULL,'Upload Text File to Secure Server');` [download] The script_name is the shell script which calls the perl script, and file_name is the file parameter to upload. The perl script gets the file_name paramter passed to it OK, as it can print it out Maybe there is a better way of doing this directly from the browser, or maybe something needs configuring on the browser for https? Thanks Jonathan	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Uploading files to a HTTPS server - 501 error by iburrell (Chaplain) on Jun 15, 2004 at 22:41 UTC
What are you trying to accomplish? It looks like you are running JavaScript in the browser that posts to the shell script on the web server. I am going to guess that the shell script is not a CGI script. I am also going to bet that web server is not configured to run shell scripts as CGI scripts and gives the 501 error because it can't POST to them. It is possible to have a CGI script (usually written all in Perl), that accepts a file upload and then POSTs it to another secure web server. I guess it is also possible to have a CGI script on a web server that POSTs a local file to a secure web server but I am not sure why you would want do that. If posting from a browser to the secure site is working, why do you need the script using LWP?	[reply]
Re^4: Uploading files to a HTTPS server - 501 error by Anonymous Monk on Jun 16, 2004 at 11:42 UTC
Re: Uploading files to a HTTPS server - 501 error by Corion (Patriarch) on Jun 15, 2004 at 12:23 UTC
When Perl/LWP says that `Crypt::SSLeay` is not installed, then, most likely, `Crypt::SSLeay` is not installed. There is no module `Crypt`, this is only a namespace in which some other modules live. You will need to install Crypt::SSLeay and the corresponding XS libraries. The necessary libraries are available from http://www.openssl.org, and I believe the process is described in the README.SSL of LWP, the FAQ of WWW::Mechanize (which hints at having IO::Socket::SSL as an alternative) and also in the documentation of WWW::Mechanize::Shell. Update: Fixed names to the actual parts of documentation	[reply]
Re^2: Uploading files to a HTTPS server - 501 error by Anonymous Monk on Jun 15, 2004 at 13:39 UTC
It is installed - here is the output from the script running from comand line: `Archive::Zip -- 1.05 Compress::Zlib -- 1.19 Crypt::SSLeay -- 0.51 DBD::Oracle -- 1.12 DBI -- 1.32 Digest::MD5 -- 2.30 HTML::Parser -- 3.34 HTML::Tagset -- 3.03 MIME::Base64 -- 2.21 Net -- ??? Net::SSLeay -- 1.25 Perl -- 5.6.0 URI -- 1.27 XML::Parser -- 2.30 XML::Parser::Expat -- 2.30 XML::Simple -- 1.05 libwww-perl -- ??? Transferring File to Secure Server The filename is: XXtest8b.tst The File was transferred succesfully` [download] Looking at SSLeay.pm, it uses bootstrap: `require DynaLoader; @ISA = qw(DynaLoader); $VERSION = '0.51'; bootstrap Crypt::SSLeay $VERSION;` [download] I'm wondering if the bootsrap is failing when running from the browser? Thanks Jonathan	[reply] [d/l] [select]