LWP::Protocol::https(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation LWP::Protocol::https(3)

# [NAME](#NAME)

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

# [SYNOPSIS](#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](#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](#SEE_ALSO)

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

# [COPYRIGHT & LICENSE](#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.

2026-10-26 perl v5.44.0

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Document: LWP::Protocol::https(3pm) from perl-lwp-protocol-https 6.17-r2 (Chainguard OS)
Source: https://github.com/libwww-perl/LWP-Protocol-https.git