I don't know if this is your problem, but one quick search of the documentation came up with Why don't https:// URLs work?.

Yeah I've added those packages and tried other flavors of having them grab the https url, but I keep getting the same issue when using mechanize. Is there something specific that may need to be done using the IO::Socket::HTTPS with mechanize to get them to play nicely with each other?

Yeah I've added those packages and tried other flavors of having them grab the https url, but I keep getting the same issue when using mechanize.

"bad hostname" is a DNS issue, nothing really you can do from perl

Try  lwp-request -UuSsEed https://google.com/ if that doesn't work, nothing can work

Ignore the bad hostname error. If I just put the IP in, it just comes up w/the same GET error, but doesn't say bad hostname. Just that it can't connect on 443

#untested
use LWP::UserAgent;
use WWW::Mechanize;

my $agent = WWW::Mechanize->new();
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
$ua->protocols_allowed(['https']);

$agent->get('https://xxxxxxxxxxx.com/file');
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 perl check_perl_lib.pl
Any::Moose -- 0.18
Archive::Zip -- 1.30
Attribute::Handlers -- 0.93
CPAN -- 1.9800
Carp -- 1.25
Class::Load -- 0.19
Class::Singleton -- 1.4
Compress::Raw::Bzip2 -- 2.052
Compress::Raw::Zlib -- 2.054
Config::General -- 2.50
Cwd -- 3.33
DBD::Oracle -- 1.42
DBD::SQLite -- 1.35
DBM::Deep -- 2.0006
Data::Dumper -- 2.131
Data::OptList -- 0.107
Date::Manip -- 6.31
DateTime -- 0.74
DateTime::Format::DateManip -- 0.04
DateTime::Locale -- 0.45
DateTime::TimeZone -- 1.46
Devel::PPPort -- 3.20
Digest::SHA -- 5.71
Dist::CheckConflicts -- 0.02
Encode::Locale -- 1.03
Expect -- 1.21
ExtUtils::CBuilder -- 0.280205
ExtUtils::MakeMaker -- 6.62
ExtUtils::ParseXS -- 3.15
File::HomeDir -- 0.99
File::Listing -- 6.04
File::Path -- 2.08
File::Which -- 1.09
Getopt::Attribute -- 2.101700
GnuPG::Interface -- 0.44
HTTP::Cookies -- 6.01
HTTP::Daemon -- 6.01
HTTP::Date -- 6.02
HTTP::Message -- 6.03
HTTP::Negotiate -- 6.01
IO::Compress -- ???
IO::Tty -- 1.10
IPC::Run3 -- 0.045
JSON -- 2.53
JSON::XS -- 2.32
LWP -- 6.04
LWP::MediaTypes -- 6.02
List::MoreUtils -- 0.33
Mail::Sendmail -- 0.79
Math::BigInt -- 1.997
Math::Round -- 0.06
Module::Implementation -- 0.06
Module::Runtime -- 0.013
Mouse -- 0.97
Net -- ???
Net::HTTP -- 6.03
Net::SMTP::SSL -- 1.01
Net::Telnet -- 3.03
Package::DeprecationManager -- 0.13
Package::Stash -- 0.33
Package::Stash::XS -- 0.25
Params::Util -- 1.07
Params::Validate -- 1.06
Perl -- 5.8.8
Sub::Exporter -- 0.982
Sub::Install -- 0.926
Sub::Uplevel -- 0.24
Test::Deep -- 0.109
Test::Exception -- 0.31
Test::Fatal -- 0.010
Test::Harness -- 3.23
Test::Inter -- 1.03
Test::NoWarnings -- 1.04
Test::Output -- 1.01
Test::Requires -- 0.06
Test::Script -- 1.07
Test::Simple -- 0.98
Test::Tester -- 0.108
Test::Warn -- 0.24
Tie::DBI -- 1.05
Time::Format -- 1.11
Tree::DAG_Node -- 1.06
Try::Tiny -- 0.11
WWW::Mechanize -- 1.72
WWW::RobotRules -- 6.02
XML::XPath -- 1.13
YAML::Syck -- 1.20
common::sense -- 3.6
parent -- 0.225
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That's a little broad...lol. Can you narrow that down? Whats the code your using to connect?