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NAME
       LWP::Protocol::https - Provide https support for LWP::UserAgent

SYNOPSIS
         use LWP::UserAgent;

         $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new(ssl_opts => { verify_hostname => 1 });
         $res = $ua->get("https://www.example.com");

         # specify a CA path
         $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new(
             ssl_opts => {
                 SSL_ca_path     => '/etc/ssl/certs',
                 verify_hostname => 1,
             }
         );

DESCRIPTION
       The LWP::Protocol::https module provides support for using https
       schemed URLs with LWP.  This module is a plug-in to the LWP protocol
       handling, so you don't use it directly.  Once the module is installed
       LWP is able to access sites using HTTP over SSL/TLS.

       If hostname verification is requested by LWP::UserAgent's "ssl_opts",
       and neither "SSL_ca_file" nor "SSL_ca_path" is set, then "SSL_ca_file"
       is implied to be the one provided by Mozilla::CA.  If the Mozilla::CA
       module isn't available SSL requests will fail.  Either install this
       module, set up an alternative "SSL_ca_file" or disable hostname
       verification.

       This module used to be bundled with the libwww-perl, but it was
       unbundled in v6.02 in order to be able to declare its dependencies
       properly for the CPAN tool-chain.  Applications that need https support
       can just declare their dependency on LWP::Protocol::https and will no
       longer need to know what underlying modules to install.

SEE ALSO
       IO::Socket::SSL, Crypt::SSLeay, Mozilla::CA

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE
       Copyright (c) 1997-2011 Gisle Aas.

       This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
       under the same terms as Perl itself.

perl v5.32.0                      2020-12-21         LWP::Protocol::https(3pm)

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