CountZero has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:
I was writing some code to access my Flickr account, when I happened to have to access a resource over an SSL connection (https-protocol).
Much to my surprise, LWP failed to access this resource and gave me a most strange error:
The code I used was a very simpleCan't connect to api.flickr.com:443 Bad file descriptor at d:/Perl/perl/site/lib/LWP/Protocol/http.pm line + 41.
Note that LWP makes the connection if I change 'https' by 'http'. Of course the webserver then refuses to return the requested resource as it requires an SSL connection.my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new; my $req = HTTP::Request->new( GET => 'https://api.flickr.com/services/ +rest'); my $response = $ua->request($req);
Note also that the error message refers to the LWP::Protocol::http-module, rather than the LWP::Protocol::https-module, as one should expect.
Both modules are installed and up-to-date. Net::SSL is also installed and up-to-date (version 2.86).
I am running Strawberry Perl 18.2 on a Windows 8.1 machine.
Anyone any ideas how to make this work?
Update: Adding the ssl_opts and protocols_allowed parameters solved the problem. Thanks all!
CountZero
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Re: LWP not working with HTTPS protocol
by LanX (Saint) on May 02, 2015 at 22:27 UTC | |
Re: LWP not working with HTTPS protocol
by hippo (Bishop) on May 03, 2015 at 10:33 UTC | |
Re: LWP not working with HTTPS protocol
by Khen1950fx (Canon) on May 03, 2015 at 04:00 UTC | |
by noxxi (Pilgrim) on May 03, 2015 at 12:45 UTC | |
Re: LWP not working with HTTPS protocol
by Gangabass (Vicar) on May 03, 2015 at 04:10 UTC | |
by Anonymous Monk on Jul 22, 2015 at 01:13 UTC |