in reply to Mechanize not working with HTTPS

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?.

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Re^2: Mechanize not working with HTTPS
by omegaweaponZ (Beadle) on Jun 20, 2012 at 01:05 UTC
    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?
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      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

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        Understood, but the original URL was not using https, it was only recently changed. Previously, it worked fine, so I don't think its a dns issue. Also if I just use the IP address instead of the hostname it just says "can't connect" instead of the full bad hostname. I think its more to do with mechanize not working correctly with https, and I was wondering if there were some tips and tricks people have used to get to work
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