Handling SSL digital certificate using LWP

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

Hi Monks,

In my current project, I have to interact with a https site. They have provided digital certificate in both ‘.pfx’ and ‘.pem’ format. I tried to connect using ‘Crypt::SSLeay’ module and getting the following response.

500 Connect failed: connect: Connection refused Connection refused

I tested with setting both HTTPS_CERT_FILE and HTTPS_PKCS12_FILE environment variables. The following is the code used for testing the same.


#!/usr/bin/perl
use LWP;
use Data::Dumper;

$ENV{HTTPS_CERT_FILE} = '/tmp/34556_cert.pem';

# $ENV{HTTPS_PKCS12_FILE} = '/tmp/34556_pkcs.pfx';
# $ENV{HTTPS_PKCS12_PASSWORD} = '34556';

my $url = 'https://sitename.com’;   # Yes, HTTPS!


my $browser = LWP::UserAgent->new;
my $response = $browser->get($url);
die "Error at $url\n ", $response->status_line, "\n Aborting"
unless $response->is_success;
print "Whee, it worked!  I got that ",
$response->content_type, " document!\n";
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Any ideas will be greatly appreciated.

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Re: Handling SSL digital certificate using LWP by zentara (Cardinal) on Jun 06, 2007 at 11:59 UTC
I just did a groups.google.com search for "SSL digital certificate LWP" and there were a couple of posts similar to your problem. The answer was that the certificate was not verified. I don't know if that is your roadblock, but you might want to google for the same phrase above, and you will find a few articles on making "self-certified certs". I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. Cogito ergo sum a bum	[reply]
Re: Handling SSL digital certificate using LWP by Anonymous Monk on Jun 06, 2007 at 06:39 UTC
RTFM `# DEBUGGING SWITCH / LOW LEVEL SSL DIAGNOSTICS $ENV{HTTPS_DEBUG} = 1; # DEFAULT SSL VERSION` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Handling SSL digital certificate using LWP by lamp (Chaplain) on Jun 06, 2007 at 10:51 UTC
Here is the output after adding HTTPS_DEBUG. `LWP::UserAgent::new: () LWP::UserAgent::request: () LWP::UserAgent::send_request: POST https://sitename.com LWP::UserAgent::_need_proxy: Not proxied LWP::Protocol::http::request: () LWP::UserAgent::request: Simple response: Internal Server Error` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Handling SSL digital certificate using LWP by Herkum (Parson) on Jun 06, 2007 at 11:52 UTC
Since you got an Internal Server Error you should check the Web Server error logs to see what message it spits out from your script.	[reply]