I am working on a script that processes a https response as it is being received, chunk by chunk. I started off with LWP but since the URI was static (and local) there was no need to load up all of those extra modules, plus I couldn't find a way to loop over the incoming data in a way that would fit with the processing method.

Now I am using Net::HTTPS, but there's a problem. If I use the example given for Net::HTTP, and just change HTTP to HTTPS, everything almost works. The data is returned as expected, however, I get a flood of warnings:

Use of uninitialized value in subroutine entry at /usr/lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.12.2/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/Net/SSL.pm line 222.

Net::SSL line 222: my $n = *$self->{ssl_ssl}->read(@_);

When I dump @_, it looks like the filehandle and scalar are missing when the warning is printed. I'm hoping that someone can shed a little light on this issue. It's so close to working

Thanks 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Net::HTTPS;

my $s = Net::HTTPS->new(Host => 'www.verisign.com') || die $@;
$s->write_request(GET => "/", 'User-Agent' => "Mozilla/5.0");
my($code, $mess, %h) = $s->read_response_headers;

while (1) {
    my $buf;
    my $n = $s->read_entity_body($buf, 1024);
    die "read failed: $!" unless defined $n;
    last unless $n;
    print $buf;
}

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In reply to Net::HTTPS warnings by msalerno

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