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

Howdy Bros. I am trying to access the Twitter login page using Mech like so 
use strict;
use WWW::Mechanize;
my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new();
my $loginpage = 'https://twitter.com/sessions';
$mech->get($loginpage);

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When I run this, I get response code 501 and a message "Protocol scheme 'https' is not supported (Crypt::SSLeay not installed)." But PPM tells me that Crypt::SSLeay is indeed installed. Do I have to USE it explicitly or something?

Thanks...

Steve

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Re: WWW::Mechanize trouble reading HTTPS page
by Lawliet (Curate) on Nov 28, 2008 at 20:53 UTC
    But PPM tells me that Crypt::SSLeay is indeed installed. Do I have to USE it explicitly or something?

    Give it a shot :-)

    The documentation says that you do not need to explicity use it (or at least the example does not use it). Perhaps reinstall and check for errors.

    Updated with links.

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Re: WWW::Mechanize trouble reading HTTPS page
by almut (Canon) on Nov 28, 2008 at 22:12 UTC

    As already said, you do not have to explicitly use Crypt::SSLeay.  OTOH, what happens if you do — does it fail?  If so, the error message might indicate why it doesn't work despite being installed...  AFAIK, the normal attempt to load the module (under the hood, by LWP::UA, that is) would fail silently.

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Re: WWW::Mechanize trouble reading HTTPS page
by cormanaz (Deacon) on Nov 28, 2008 at 22:51 UTC
    Turns out it was an older version of Crypt::SSLeay. An upgrade did the trick.
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