perl -d:Modlist -S lwp-request -UusSeEd https://www.easysoft.com
[download]

works for me i.e., it downloads the file but my starting example still does not work.

martin@betdevel:~$ perl -d:Modlist -S lwp-request -UusSeEd https://www
+.easysoft
.com
GET https://www.easysoft.com
User-Agent: lwp-request/6.00 libwww-perl/6.02

200 OK
Connection: close
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 17:05:08 GMT
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Server: Apache/2.0.54 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.0.54 OpenSSL/0.9.7d mod_perl/1.
+999.21 Per
l/v5.8.6
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
Client-Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 17:04:44 GMT
Client-Peer: 172.20.100.10:443
Client-Response-Num: 1
Client-SSL-Cert-Issuer: /C=US/O=Equifax/OU=Equifax Secure Certificate 
+Authority
Client-SSL-Cert-Subject: /serialNumber=Paoxfx3blSdh6U20B0CULwa1WF0wpCX
+i/C=GB/O=w
ww.easysoft.com/OU=GT68879435/OU=See www.rapidssl.com/resources/cps (c
+)10/OU=Dom
ain Control Validated - RapidSSL(R)/CN=www.easysoft.com
Client-SSL-Cipher: DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA
Client-SSL-Socket-Class: IO::Socket::SSL
Client-Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Style-Type: text/css
Link: </style/style.css>; rel="stylesheet"; type="text/css"
Link: </favicon.ico>; rel="icon"; type="image/x-icon"
Title: ODBC, JDBC and XML Driver Downloads for Windows, Unix, Linux an
+d Mac OS X
X-Meta-Description: Easysoft ODBC, JDBC and XML drivers let you access
+ Oracle, S
QL Server, Access, InterBase, Sybase, Firebird, RMS, ISAM, Coda and Li
+nc from Wi
ndows, Unix, Linux, Mac OS X and OpenVMS.
X-Meta-Keywords: easysoft,odbc,jdbc,xml,drivers,gateway,bridge,data,da
+tabases,fi
les,oracle,interbase,sybase,firebird,microsoft,sql server,access,coda,
+openvms,rm
s,isam,linc
X-Meta-Verify-V1: A80XwI68Uh8cIAFxkNSpouY1b8iRx/PeYQcfrBUotks=

Use of uninitialized value in split at /home/martin/perl5/perlbrew/per
+ls/perl-5.
14.0/lib/site_perl/5.14.0/Devel/Modlist.pm line 49.
AutoLoader             5.71
Carp                   1.20
Compress::Raw::Zlib   2.033
Config
Cwd                    3.36
Encode                 2.42
Encode::Alias          2.13
Encode::Config         2.05
Encode::Encoding       2.05
Encode::Locale         1.02
Errno                  1.13
Exporter             5.64_03
Exporter::Heavy      5.64_03
Fcntl                  1.11
File::Basename         2.82
File::Glob             1.12
File::GlobMapper      1.000
File::Spec             3.33
File::Spec::Unix       3.33
Getopt::Long           2.38
HTML::Entities         3.68
HTML::HeadParser       3.66
HTML::Parser           3.68
HTTP::Config           6.00
HTTP::Date             6.00
HTTP::Headers          6.00
HTTP::Message          6.02
HTTP::Request          6.00
HTTP::Response         6.01
HTTP::Status           6.00
I18N::Langinfo         0.08
IO                   1.25_04
IO::Compress::Base::Common  2.033
IO::Compress::Gzip::Constants  2.033
IO::Compress::Zlib::Extra  2.033
IO::File               1.15
IO::Handle             1.31
IO::Seekable            1.1
IO::Socket             1.32
IO::Socket::INET       1.31
IO::Socket::SSL        1.44
IO::Socket::UNIX       1.23
IO::Uncompress::Adapter::Inflate  2.033
IO::Uncompress::Base  2.033
IO::Uncompress::Gunzip  2.033
IO::Uncompress::RawInflate  2.033
LWP                    6.02
LWP::MemberMixin
LWP::Protocol          6.00
LWP::Protocol::http
LWP::Protocol::https   6.02
LWP::UserAgent         6.02
List::Util             1.23
Mozilla::CA          20110409
Net::HTTP              6.01
Net::HTTP::Methods     6.00
Net::HTTPS             6.00
Net::SSLeay            1.36
Scalar::Util           1.23
SelectSaver            1.02
Socket                 1.94
Storable               2.27
Symbol                 1.07
Time::Local          1.2000
URI                    1.58
URI::Escape            3.30
URI::Heuristic         4.19
URI::_generic
URI::_idna
URI::_punycode         0.03
URI::_query
URI::_server
URI::http
URI::https
XSLoader               0.13
base                   2.16
bytes                  1.04
constant               1.21
feature                1.20
integer                1.00
overload               1.13
unicore::Heavy.pl
unicore::To::Lower.pl
unicore::lib::Nt::De.pl
unicore::lib::Perl::SpacePer.pl
unicore::lib::Perl::Word.pl
utf8                   1.09
utf8_heavy.pl
vars                   1.02
warnings               1.12
warnings::register     1.02
[download]

works for me i.e., it downloads the file but my starting example still does not work.

Whoa, that doesn't make sense.

lwp-download is essentially identical to your program (except the -d option says don't print the content).

I have OpenSSL 1.0.0d

Both work for me :/

I am running ubuntu and have 0.9.80 but I only have one copy of openssl so both Perl's are using the same one. I was hoping to debug it with HTTPS_DEBUG=1 but that does not output anything in 5.14.0. I guess I'll just have to run it in debug and try and see where it fails.