[MacPerl] Reading https URL's

[Eric Albert <ejalbert@cs.stanford.edu>]

I'm currently working on something that requires that I retrieve the
results of a Perl script running off of a secure server (i.e one that's
only accessible via https).  When I try to use LWP::Simple to do this,
though, I get this error message:
# Protocol scheme 'https' is not supported
File 'Eric's Funky G3:MacPerl Ä:lib:LWP:UserAgent.pm'; Line 206

Tracing through the code shows that https support through LWP seems to
depend on LWP::SecureSocket, which in turn requires Net::SSLeay...but
Net::SSLeay is not in my MacPerl distribution!  This is MacPerl 5.2.0r4....

Anyway, that leads to two questions -- how do I do a GET on a URL via https
in MacPerl, and why is LWP::SecureSocket part of the MacPerl distribution
if it depends on a module that is not there?

If it isn't possible to do this in MacPerl, but it's relatively
uncomplicated via other methods on the Mac, I'd really appreciate receiving
a note via email (not on the list) about that.

Thanks in advance,
Eric

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Eric Albert                     ejalbert@cs.stanford.edu
http://www.stanford.edu/~ejalbert/



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