LWP::UserAgent with TLS

shug94 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Is it possible to use LWP::UserAgent to send an HTTP Request using TLS? Will simply sending to a url starting with https:// work? If not is there a way? Or should I just abandon this idea, and switch to some other perl module?

I am trying to add some secure communications using TLS to some perl code which currently only uses LWP::UserAgent and I thought it would be more elegant if I could continue to use it.

Thanks in advance for all your help

Cheers
Cameron

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Re: LWP::UserAgent with TLS by Anonymous Monk on Oct 20, 2009 at 09:11 UTC
http://search.cpan.org/dist/libwww-perl/README.SSL Encryption support is obtained through the use of Crypt::SSLeay or IO::Socket::SSL, which can both be found from CPAN. While libwww-perl has "plug-and-play" support for both of these modules (as of v5.45), the recommended module to use is Crypt::SSLeay.	[reply]