using WWW::Mechanize with HTTPS

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

I read that in order to use WWW::Mechanize with a secure HTTPS you need to have SSLeay. I went to the docs for SSLeay and it really doesn't show you how to merge the two scripts together. The entire script is

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use SSleay;
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
use CGI qw/:standard/;
use WWW::Mechanize;
my $name= "##";
my $pass= "##";
my $browser=WWW::Mechanize->new();
$browser->get("https://secured.goldleaf.com/commandcenterplus/");
$browser->form(1);
$browser->field("username", $name);
$browser->field("password", $pass);
$browser->click();
print "Location: https://secured.goldleaf.com/commandcenterplus/main.a
+sp\n\n";
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Can someone help me figure out how to use SSLeay to get this to work?

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Re: using WWW::Mechanize with HTTPS by moot (Chaplain) on Apr 30, 2005 at 03:22 UTC
All you need is to have Crypt::SSLeay installed: $ perl -MWWW::Mechanize -e '$w = WWW::Mechanize->new; $w->get("https:/ +/mail.yahoo.com"); print $w->uri; print $w->content'\|head https://mail.yahoo.com <html> <head> <META content="index,follow" name="robots"> <META content="Yahoo! Mail Free reliable easy SpamGuard antivirus stor +age" name="keywords"> <META content="Take a closer look at Yahoo! Mail. Get these great fea +tures: Powerful protection against spam and viruses, 250MB of email s +torage, Message size up to 10MB, and Mail anywhere there's a web conn +ection" name="description"> <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="https://sec.yimg.com/i/re +g/mail_style.css"> <title>Yahoo! Mail - The best web-based email!</title> <style type="text/css"> [download] WWW::Mechanize lives on top of LWP::UserAgent, which only requires that Crypt::SSLeay be installed for it to work automagically.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: using WWW::Mechanize with HTTPS by cbrandtbuffalo (Deacon) on Apr 30, 2005 at 12:41 UTC
If you tried it and it didn't work, post the error message you received and we can try to troubleshoot.	[reply]
Re: using WWW::Mechanize with HTTPS by blucap (Initiate) on Feb 14, 2008 at 17:04 UTC
Note that it is fairly simple to add the U of Winnipeg Active Perl 5.8 repository (where SSLeay can be found) to the list of repositories that Active Perl searches. See: http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/	[reply]