Re: Cookies for LWPng & more

Gisle Aas (gisle@activestate.com)
15 Sep 2000 06:24:25 +0200


"Tan Joo Geok" <tjg@krdl.org.sg> writes:

> It works fine now. Thanks a lot!

Good.  Then it might be a good idea for me to simply put that into the
URI module.

> I moved on to try if LWPng can do https as well using a https URL($url =
> "https://www.nodeworks.com") in the code below and got the following error
> message:
> 
> 590 No handler for 'https' scheme
> 
> I am sure that my system is set up properly to do https because the original
> lwp-request from libwww works fine with a https URL.  The problem seems to
> be with LWPng.  Can LWPng do https?

No.  I never got around to that.

>  If not, what must one do to make it do so?

You have to write the LWP::Conn::HTTPS module.  You also want to write
this as kind of a subclass of LWP::Conn::HTTP, but this is tricky
since it use all kind of reblessing tricks.

Regards,
Gisle