I have an application which uses WWW::Mechanize in a ->_render_url() method to fetch and embed in my application static content hosted locally or elsewhere. It takes forever to render my form as WWW::Mechanize attempts and then fails to negotiate the ssl wrapper around some of these links. It litters my logs with errors reading like: "Invalid method in request \x80d\x01\x03\x01".

I tried installing: Crypt::SSLeay as suggested by nodes found in SuperSearch, but still get the same behavior (slow response and error-riddled logs). Is there a way to make my $agent speak ssl so that this might work?

-- Hugh