Re^3: Mechanize not working with HTTPS

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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Re^4: Mechanize not working with HTTPS by omegaweaponZ (Beadle) on Jun 20, 2012 at 02:34 UTC
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	[reply]
Re^5: Mechanize not working with HTTPS by Khen1950fx (Canon) on Jun 20, 2012 at 03:14 UTC
HTTPS won't work without LWP::Protocol::https:-).	[reply]
Re^6: Mechanize not working with HTTPS by tobyink (Canon) on Jun 20, 2012 at 07:14 UTC
Yes, that's likely the culprit. WWW::Mechanize is a wrapper for LWP::UserAgent. As of version 6 of LWP (released quite recently), HTTPS support (in LWP::Protocol::https) was spun out into a separate distribution, so needs to be installed separately. `perl -E'sub Monkey::do{say$_,for@_,do{($monkey=[caller(0)]->[3])=~s{::}{ }and$monkey}}"Monkey say"->Monkey::do'`	[reply]
Re^7: Mechanize not working with HTTPS by omegaweaponZ (Beadle) on Jun 20, 2012 at 23:41 UTC
Re^8: Mechanize not working with HTTPS by Anonymous Monk on Jun 21, 2012 at 06:31 UTC
Re^5: Mechanize not working with HTTPS by Anonymous Monk on Jun 20, 2012 at 02:46 UTC
...I think its more to do with mechanize not working correctly with https ... :) :) you're not qualified to blame your tools, sorry (:(:	[reply]