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You want to work with a web server over a secure (SSL) connection. For example, you want to automate ordering supplies for your company from an online store, and the online store wisely protects its transactions with SSL.
Install Crypt::SSLeay and https: URLs automatically work with LWP. You do not need to reinstall LWP.
When LWP sends a request to an https server, it checks whether there is a module installed to do SSL. The two modules that LWP can use are, in order of preference, Crypt::SSLeay and IO::Socket::SSL. Of the two, Crypt::SSLeay is the more fully featured, but requires the OpenSSL libraries from http://www.openssl.org.
The documentation for the CPAN module Crypt::SSLeay; the README.SSL file in the libwww-perl distribution
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