I don't know if you still need it. Anyway, I've created small HTTP parser module that can be used to parse HTTP protocol (either requests or responses). This module does not care where the data comes from, so you can open either regular connection or use IO::Socket::SSL to open secure connection and then simply pass the obtained chunks of data to the parser and get from it the pieces of parsed information.

The module is available at http://vandal.sdf-eu.org/HttpProto.pm Just save it into file. The perldoc on that file shall give you detailed usage information.

I feel, it is cleaner to use this module than the hack I've provided in previous message :)