Net::SSL(3)

NAME
Net::SSL - support for Secure Sockets Layer

METHODS

new Creates a new "Net::SSL" object.

configure
    Configures a "Net::SSL" socket for operation.

configure_certs
    Sets up a certificate file to use for communicating with on the socket.

connect
die_with_error
get_cipher
get_lwp_object
    Walks up the caller stack and looks for something blessed into the "LWP::UserAgent" namespace and returns it. Vaguely deprecated.

get_peer_certificate
    Gets the peer certificate from the underlying "Crypt::SSLeay::Conn" object.

get_peer_verify
get_shared_ciphers
getchunk
    Attempts to read up to 32KiB of data from the socket. Returns "undef" if nothing was read, otherwise returns the data as a scalar.

getline
    Reads one character at a time until a newline is encountered, and returns the line, including the newline. Grossly inefficient.

print
    Concatenates the input parameters and writes them to the socket. Does not honour $, nor $/. Returns the number of bytes written.

printf
    Performs a "sprintf" of the input parameters (thus, the first parameter must be the format), and writes the result to the socket. Returns the number of bytes written.

proxy
    Returns the hostname of an https proxy server, as specified by the "HTTPS_PROXY" environment variable.

proxy_connect_helper
    Helps set up a connection through a proxy.

read
    Performs a read on the socket and returns the result.

ssl_context
sysread
    Is an alias of "read".

timeout
    Returns the timeout value of the socket as defined by the implementing class or 60 seconds by default.

blocking
    Returns a boolean indicating whether the underlying socket is in blocking mode. By default, Net::SSL sockets are in blocking mode.

        $sock->blocking(0); # set to non-blocking mode

    This method simply calls the underlying "blocking" method of the IO::Socket object.

write
    Writes the parameters passed in (thus, a list) to the socket. Returns the number of bytes written.

syswrite
    Is an alias of "write".

accept
    Not yet implemented. Will die if called.

getc
    Not yet implemented. Will die if called.

getlines
    Not yet implemented. Will die if called.

ungetc
    Not yet implemented. Will die if called.

send_useragent_to_proxy
    By default (as of version 2.80 of "Net::SSL" in the 0.54 distribution of Crypt::SSLeay), the user agent string is no longer sent to the proxy (but will continue to be sent to the remote host).

    The previous behaviour was of marginal benefit, and could cause fatal errors in certain scenarios (see CPAN bug #4759) and so no longer happens by default.

    To reinstate the old behaviour, call "Net::SSL::send_useragent_to_proxy" with a true value (usually 1).

DIAGNOSTICS
  "no port given for proxy server <proxy>"

A proxy was specified for configuring a socket, but no port number was given. Ensure that the proxy is specified as a host:port pair, such as "proxy.example.com:8086".

  "configure certs failed: <contents of $@>; <contents of $!>"

  "proxy connect failed: <contents of $@>; <contents of $!>"

  "Connect failed: <contents of $@>; <contents of $!>"

During connect().

  SEE ALSO

IO::Socket::INET
    "Net::SSL" is implemented by subclassing "IO::Socket::INET", hence methods not specifically overridden are defined by that package.

Net::SSLeay
    A package that provides a Perl-level interface to the "openssl" secure sockets layer library.