One of my users runs this program and gets the error show below: 
use strict;
use warnings;

use WWW::Mechanize;

my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new();
$mech->get('https://www.cpan.org');
my $html_string = $mech->content();

print $html_string;

### Can't connect to www.cpan.org:443 at test2.pl line 7.

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The browser on his system can display that CPAN url and any other https site without problems. Mechanize works fine in other Perl programs on regular http sites.

He is using Perl 5.24 from ActiveState (I am also). We have verified that these modules are installed:
Crypt::SSLeay
Net::SSLeay
IO::Socket::SSL
Net::SSL
LWP::Protocol::https (update: forgot to mention in the original post)

I can't think of anything else that might be needed. Of course, this works fine on my machine. Any ideas?

Update: OS is Windows 10 and LWP::Protocol::https is installed.

In reply to WWW::Mechanize cannot connect to HTTPS site by Marshall

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