RE: status of LWP & SSLeay
mads@toftum.dk
Fri, 12 Feb 1999 00:14:13 +0100
AFAIK https support is unchanged in LWP, still being based on SSLeay
0.6.x. There is an alternative - Net::SSLeay, which is based on the
latest SSLeay/OpenSSL. It doesn't really work with lwp, but you can
use lwp to generate generate the request and then let Net::SSLeay
handle the transport. I've been doing that quite a lot since last
summer and haven't had any problems with it.
Of course it would be really nice to have lwp working with the
latest version of OpenSSL, and the question keeps popping up on
comp.lang.perl.* groups. From what I've seen in lwp's https.pm,
it wouldn't be imossible to start using Net::SSLeay there instead
of Crypt::SSLeay. If nobody else does it, I suppose eventually I'll
end up doing it myself.
vh.
Mads Toftum, QDPH
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> Subject: status of LWP & SSLeay
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> i'm planning on making my LWP based clients use https instead
> of http when
> communicating with application servers. there have been
> discussion about
> the subject on this list in the past, but what's the current
> status of LWP
> & https integration? which method of accomplishing it, is
> currently the
> preferred one?
>
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