I am having trouble connecting to an HTTPS site with Mechanize. I can connect to other HTTPS sites with this same code. So, I don't think that this is an encryption problem. There appears to be something weird with the particular site below. The URL is correct and works in Chrome and Edge.

This particular site got hit with a massive ransomware attack some months back. Something subtle could have changed on this site when putting Humpty Dumpty back together again. My code has been working without problems for the last 5 years. Ideas? 

use strict;
use warnings;

use WWW::Mechanize;
$|=1;

#my $page = 'https://contests.arrl.org/publiclogs.php?eid=18&iid=1049'
+;
my $page = 'https://contests.arrl.org/';

my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new( autocheck => 1 ); 

$mech->get($page);

exit;

__END__
Error GETing https://contests.arrl.org/publiclogs.php?eid=18&iid=1049:
Can't connect to contests.arrl.org:443 (Bad file descriptor) at test.p
+l line 11.

Now with just the minimal URL, I get the same error:
Error GETing https://contests.arrl.org/: Can't connect to contests.arr
+l.org:443 (Bad file descriptor)

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Update: Changed the code to not verify_hostname. I guess this is then a non-secure connection? I am not sure exactly what this does. 
my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new( autocheck => 1, 
                                ssl_opts => { verify_hostname => 0}, )
+;

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