Here is a piece of code that tries to download a url using LWP:

use strict;

use warnings;
use LWP::UserAgent;
use IO::Socket::SSL;

my $url = "https://www.gov.nu.ca/";

do {
    my $user_agent = LWP::UserAgent->new(ssl_opts => { verify_hostname
+ => 0, SSL_verify_mode => IO::Socket::SSL::SSL_VERIFY_NONE, } );
    
    $user_agent->agent('Mozilla/5.0');

    my $request  = HTTP::Request->new( GET => $url );
    my $response = $user_agent->request($request);
    
    print "\n\ncontent:\n".$response->content;
    print "\n\ncode: ".$response->code."\n\nmessage: ".$response->mess
+age;
    
}

[download]

When I run it through my employer's VPN, it produces the following output: 

content:
... etc...
<TITLE>Untrusted SSL Server Certificate</TITLE>
... etc...

code: 503

message: Service Unavailable

[download]

Which is strange, given that I disabled the SSL certificate checking in my ssl_opts. Yet, if I curl the same URL, again through the VPN, I get the page's content.

Even stranger, if I log out of my employer's VPN, then the above script does work and produce the content of the page. So it seems that the VPN is somehow overriding my ssl_opts, but then, why is it not doing the same with curl?

Any idea about what is going on?

Thx.

In reply to Cannot disable SSL certificate checking when using VPN by alain_desilets

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