Net::HTTPS - Low-level HTTP over SSL/TLS connection (client)
version 6.16
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.
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.
Gisle Aas <gisle@activestate.com>
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.
