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Sending request via https in LWP fails

 
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Sending request via https in LWP fails
Petebardo
post 5 May, 2008 - 01:49 PM
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I am attempting to POST a request using https protocol through the LWP package. For some reason Perl returns an error message, "501 Protocol scheme 'https' is not supported." The message seems to come from Protocol.pm. The package, including support for https seems to be installed, at least the Protocol/https.pm exists. What do I need to do to enable https support?


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#Create a HTTP:Request to the Sandbox server, using the headers and body specified
my $httpRequest = HTTP::Request->new("POST", 'https://$url?', $httpHeader, $requestXmlBody);

#Send the request and get HTTP::Response object
my $httpResponse = $ua->request($httpRequest);
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post 5 May, 2008 - 02:16 PM
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Make sure you have a recent copy of Crypt::SSLeay . If you need to install it, you might want to reinstall LWP after. I am not sure if it detects https support during installations or runtime.
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post 5 May, 2008 - 03:02 PM
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Thanks for the help.

I downloaded the Crypt/SSLeay package. When I ran the Makefile.pl, I got this error message:
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No installed SSL libraries found in any of the following places.
    c:\openssl
You will have to either specify a directory location at the following
prompt, or rerun the Makefile.PL program and use the --lib switch
to specify the path. If the path in question is considered standard
on your platform, please consider filing a bug report in order to
have it taken into account in a subsequent version of Crypt::SSLeay.


I have cygwin installed, which includes openssl.exe, version 0.9.8b 04 May 2006. Is there something else I'm missing?
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post 5 May, 2008 - 03:16 PM
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I'm not familiar with installing openssl on windows. It looks like there is an installer at http://www.openssl.org/related/binaries.html though.
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post 5 May, 2008 - 07:10 PM
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On a side-note, if you put a scalar in single-quotes its treated like a literal string instead of a scalar:

'https://$url?'

should be:

"https://$url?"
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post 6 May, 2008 - 10:00 AM
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Thanks KevinADC. The url is actually a literal string in my code. Not wishing to reveal too much, I changed it for this post but didn't fix it for interpolation of the variable.

The problem I am having at this point is really installing openSSL. I installed
the compiled package from SourceForge into folder named GnuWin32 then tried to point makefile.pl to it as the directory both as E:\GnuWin32 and as E:\GnuWin32\bin and still get the same error message:

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Which SSL install path do you want to use?  e:/gnuwin32/
e:/gnuwin32/ does not appear to be an SSL library installation, since
the required header files were not found. The build cannot proceed.


I've tried both forward and backward slashes in the path with no luck. What am I missing?
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post 6 May, 2008 - 11:35 AM
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Well, I installed openSSL from Shining Light Productions--the one openSSL.org points to. Then ran the makefile.pl for SSLeay. It ran ok, at least it didn't report any errors. It asked if I wanted to run the tests. I answered yes, but then nothing happened. It just went back to the system prompt.

At this point I should emphasize I'm running Windows Server 2003.

What do I do now?
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post 6 May, 2008 - 12:45 PM
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On windows try using Nmake.

c:\perl\bin\nmake /?
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That doesn't seem to be a valid command on my installation. I'm using 5.6 from ActiveState. I don't have a c-compiler.

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On windows try using Nmake.

c:\perl\bin\nmake /?
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You may have to download Nmake.exe it fom the MS website. Not even sure it will work as activeperl uses the PPM application to manage modules.
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That kind of scares me. I don't know what it is or what it does. The computer I'm using is not purely development. Regardless, I'll have to do something on the production server at some point, and I can't afford to have it fail.

Thanks for your help, but I think I'll put this project on the back burner for a while.
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