Io Socket Ssl

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

I understand that the latest version of IO::Socket::SSL requires perl version 5.00503 or later. My ISP has perl version 5.00404 installed. Anybody now if previous versions of the IO::Socket::SSL module would be compatible with my version of perl and if so, which one?

I can't find any information concerning perl requriements on the module's information pages.
Thanks.

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Re: Io Socket Ssl by merlyn (Sage) on Jan 21, 2001 at 21:24 UTC
`perldoc perlhist` tells me that 5.4.4 was released 15-Oct-1997, and 5.5.3 was released 28-Mar-1999. That's nearly two years ago. Your ISP is still running a Perl from 4 years ago when there's been a very major upgrade nearly two years ago? I'd get a different ISP before I start worrying about how to get IO::Socket::SSL working, since the SSL module also requires working SSL library, and that's not likely to be there either. -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker	[reply]

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Re: Io Socket Ssl
by merlyn (Sage) on Jan 21, 2001 at 21:24 UTC

perldoc perlhist

That's nearly two years ago. Your ISP is still running a Perl from 4 years ago when there's been a very major upgrade nearly two years ago? I'd get a different ISP before I start worrying about how to get IO::Socket::SSL working, since the SSL module also requires working SSL library, and that's not likely to be there either.

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker

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