Forms, LWP and SSL

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

Ok, back again,
After help last time LWP and form bombardment, and cobbling a script together from merlyn's web techniques, the lincoln stein torture.pl and the Time::Hires / Parallel on another link I was pointed to, I've been upsetting people on our server :).

But it has shown that using FastCGI on Zeus gives about 7x better throughput than standard CGI. My next issue is SSL, which the form will be submitted under, LWP::Parallel doesnt support the protocol.

So am I back to using a version of torture.pl, forking off new processes myself? or is there anything out there for this?

I've had a search this time but not found any likely candidates yet?

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Re: Forms, LWP and SSL by footpad (Abbot) on Jan 19, 2001 at 19:26 UTC
Perhaps CGI-SecureState would be helpful.	[reply]
Re: Forms, LWP and SSL by Anonymous Monk on Jan 19, 2001 at 20:26 UTC
Do you know if LWP::UserAgent supports ssl? There seems to be a LWP::Protocol::https module that one can use to access https urls.	[reply]
Re: Re: Forms, LWP and SSL by agoth (Chaplain) on Jan 19, 2001 at 20:49 UTC
LWP::UserAgent certainly can. My problem is I need the concurrency / hit rate provided by the LWP::Parallel in addition else I have to wait for each UserAgent to return before going on with the next one. I knew I'd seen it somewhere, in perldoc lwpcook	[reply]
Re: Forms, LWP and SSL by repson (Chaplain) on Jan 20, 2001 at 10:31 UTC
Does not support the protocol... Then why in the cpan directory which contains LWP::Parallel is there a file called README.SSL? I don't know if that would be what you are looking for... Oh, and there is also LWP::Parallel::Protocol::https	[reply]
Re: Re: Forms, LWP and SSL by agoth (Chaplain) on Jan 22, 2001 at 15:02 UTC
Now I'm even more embarrased than last time, I need a refresher course in RTFM, cheers.	[reply]