Okay....here's the deal

I've installed ActiveState's 5.8 version of Perl on Win2k

I ran 'ppm install http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/Crypt-SSLeay.ppd' (as recommended on Google Groups)

I copied code straight out of lwpcook on cpan for loading a webpage using HTTP and HTTPS

if my target is 'http://blah', then it loads just fine in a browser - no hassles, exactly what I expected (which is: URL is my perl script, content is the webpage specified in the script)

If I run the self-same script from a commandline, it also does what is expected (prints to screen the HTML that the target URL contains)

If I change the target to 'https://blah' then the browser hangs - processing, processing, doesn't stop

If I run the self-same script from a commandline, then it works as it did above - printing the HTML from the target URL

any ideas? did i miss a flag somewhere?

any insight or direction would be appreciated

code follows: 
#!c:\perl\bin\perl.exe
use LWP::UserAgent;

$bup = 'http://ias4/error_403.html';
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
print "Content-type: text/html\r\n\r\n";
print $bup."\n";
my $req = HTTP::Request->new(GET => $bup);
$req->header('Accept' => 'text/html');

# send request
my $res = $ua->request($req);

# check the outcome
if ($res->is_success)
{	print $res->content;	}
else 
{	print "Error: " . $res->status_line . "\n";	}

In reply to LWP, Crypt-SSLeay, and CLI vs. WWW by jdvernon1976

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