NAME

       LWP::Protocol::https - Provide https support for LWP::UserAgent

SYNOPSIS

         use LWP::UserAgent;

         $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new(ssl_opts => { verify_hostname => 1 });
         $res = $ua->get("https://www.example.com");

         # specify a CA path
         $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new(
             ssl_opts => {
                 SSL_ca_path     => '/etc/ssl/certs',
                 verify_hostname => 1,
             }
         );

DESCRIPTION

       The LWP::Protocol::https module provides support for using https schemed URLs with LWP.
       This module is a plug-in to the LWP protocol handling, so you don't use it directly.  Once
       the module is installed LWP is able to access sites using HTTP over SSL/TLS.

       If hostname verification is requested by LWP::UserAgent's "ssl_opts", and neither
       "SSL_ca_file" nor "SSL_ca_path" is set, then "SSL_ca_file" is implied to be the one
       provided by Mozilla::CA.  If the Mozilla::CA module isn't available SSL requests will
       fail.  Either install this module, set up an alternative "SSL_ca_file" or disable hostname
       verification.

       This module used to be bundled with the libwww-perl, but it was unbundled in v6.02 in
       order to be able to declare its dependencies properly for the CPAN tool-chain.
       Applications that need https support can just declare their dependency on
       LWP::Protocol::https and will no longer need to know what underlying modules to install.

SEE ALSO

       IO::Socket::SSL, Crypt::SSLeay, Mozilla::CA

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright 1997-2011 Gisle Aas.

       This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same
       terms as Perl itself.