HTTPS anyone?

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

I'm trying to send data from a webpage securely over the internet(i.e., credit card transactions) for a business, and http just doesn't seem to be the safest way to go. Does anyone know how to interface with another machine using https? I've looked through all the perl books I own and even some I don't, and I don't see any mention of how to handle this stuff anywhere. Help would be greatly appreciated, ladies and gents. If anyone can solve this problem, I'm hoping you can.

*prepares to eat his own shorts*

"Argleblatt and blagh! Blasted secure transfers..."

--yakman

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Re: HTTPS anyone? by KM (Priest) on Apr 11, 2001 at 21:06 UTC
Have you looked at Net::SSLeay? Cheers, KM	[reply]
Re: HTTPS anyone? by Beatnik (Parson) on Apr 11, 2001 at 21:51 UTC
The README.SSL in the libwww package mentions Crypt::SSL and IO::Socket::SSL so you might wanna look into that too... Net::SSLeay doesn't seem to have the same level of plug and play'ness as the other modules :) Greetz Beatnik ... Quidquid perl dictum sit, altum viditur.	[reply]
(jeffa) Re: HTTPS anyone? by jeffa (Bishop) on Apr 11, 2001 at 21:34 UTC
Check out OpenSSL. Jeff R-R-R--R-R-R--R-R-R--R-R-R--R-R-R-- L-L--L-L--L-L--L-L--L-L--L-L--L-L--	[reply]