FW: Https problems

Andrew Cheng (andrew.cheng@starmedia.net)
Mon, 27 Dec 1999 12:31:17 -0500 

I think the problem is because the url that you are requesting is an HTTPS
page.  I tested couple of pages with https protocol, it all show no such
file or directory error.

-----Original Message-----
From: Alain Knaff [mailto:Alain.Knaff@ltnb.lu] 
Sent: Sunday, December 26, 1999 11:22 AM
To: libwww@perl.org
Subject: Https problems



I'm trying to use LWP to get a https page, but the request always
returns with is_success = 0.  According to straces output, it doesn't
even attempt to do any network connection. Here is the script that I
am using:

====================================================================
#!/usr/bin/perl

use English;
use LWP::UserAgent;


sub getTradingPage {
  my ($ticker) = @_;

  $ua = new LWP::UserAgent;
  $ua->agent("Mozilla" . $ua->agent);
  
  
  $req = new HTTP::Request GET =>
"https://trading.etrade.com/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/applogic+TradeMain";
#  $req->header(Cookie => $cookie);
  $res = $ua->request($req);
  if (! $res->is_success) {
    die "Bad luck this time: ".$res->is_success." ($ERRNO)\n";
  }

  print "res=".$res->content()."\n";

  return $res->content();
}


$string = getTradingPage();

print "page=$string\n";
====================================================================

What am I doing wrong?

Alain