NAME

       Net::HTTPS - Low-level HTTP over SSL/TLS connection (client)

VERSION

       version 6.17

DESCRIPTION

       The "Net::HTTPS" is a low-level HTTP over SSL/TLS client.  The interface is the same as the interface for
       "Net::HTTP", but the constructor takes additional parameters as accepted by IO::Socket::SSL.  The
       "Net::HTTPS" object is an "IO::Socket::SSL" too, which makes it inherit additional methods from that base
       class.

       For historical reasons this module also supports using "Net::SSL" (from the Crypt-SSLeay distribution) as
       its SSL driver and base class.  This base is automatically selected if available and "IO::Socket::SSL"
       isn't.  You might also force which implementation to use by setting $Net::HTTPS::SSL_SOCKET_CLASS before
       loading this module.  If not set this variable is initialized from the "PERL_NET_HTTPS_SSL_SOCKET_CLASS"
       environment variable.

ENVIRONMENT

       You might set the "PERL_NET_HTTPS_SSL_SOCKET_CLASS" environment variable to the name of the base SSL
       implementation (and Net::HTTPS base class) to use.  The default is "IO::Socket::SSL".  Currently the only
       other supported value is "Net::SSL".

SEE ALSO

       Net::HTTP, IO::Socket::SSL

AUTHOR

       Gisle Aas <gisle@activestate.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       This software is copyright (c) 2001-2017 by Gisle Aas.

       This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5
       programming language system itself.