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The underlying IO::Socket::INET does not support non-blocking sockets on
Win32, thus non-blocking IO::Socket::SSL is not supported on Win32, which
means also, that timeouts don't work (because they are based on
non-blocking).
See also http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=378675