Using an SSL cert to talk to a server

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

Greetings Brothers,
Sorry for the vagueness of my question, but I think my biggest problem is I don't know the proper terminology.

I need to use a given SSL certificate (pem format) to talk to my company's API server. I can use LWP::UserAgent to get a nice response from it telling me that I'm not using the cert.

I've been reading through the docs for that module, and I see stuff about specifying a CA file (which I tried) but I don't think that's quite the right thing. I don't think this is something specific to our API--it's just an HTTPD server listening on 443, and I need to somehow tell perl to use this cert when trying to make the SSL connection.

Does that make any sense? Any input would be greatly appreciated!

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Re: Using an SSL cert to talk to a server by Anonymous Monk on Jun 09, 2011 at 02:03 UTC
See Mozilla::CA and IO::Socket::SSL	[reply]
Re^2: Using an SSL cert to talk to a server by rastoboy (Monk) on Jun 09, 2011 at 14:23 UTC
Thanks for the response but wow, that is really hard. With curl you can just use -E to specify a cert. Is it really this hard in perl?	[reply]
Re^3: Using an SSL cert to talk to a server by Anonymous Monk on Jun 09, 2011 at 16:25 UTC
Thanks for the response but wow, that is really hard. See http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/SULLR/IO-Socket-SSL-1.44/example/lwp-with-verifycn.pl and add SSL_key_file / SSL_cert_file .... something :) Or, see also, http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/NANIS/Crypt-SSLeay-0.58/eg/lwp-ssl-test Also, I'm sure any suggestions for making it easier would be appreciated https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=libwww-perl With curl you can just use -E to specify a cert. Is it really this hard in perl? You can use curl from perl :)	[reply]
Re^4: Using an SSL cert to talk to a server by rastoboy (Monk) on Jun 09, 2011 at 23:35 UTC