LWP with SSL support

[rpanella]

I am trying to get LWP to work with SSL support.

First, I tried installing the IO::Socket::SSL which it supposedly works with out of the box according to the README.SSL. After install it when I run my script I get the following error:

500 Can't connect to

http://www.paypal.com:443

(Illegal seek)
Aborting at test.pl line 5.


I then tried using the Crypt::SSLeay module but it had some errors when installing. When I would try to run my test script after this module was installed I would just get a seg fault. I have looked this up and I guess it is a common problem, but I could not find any solutions for it other than people saying they sumbitted a bugfix.

If anyone knows how to get either of these modules to work with LWP I would greatly appreciate any help.

Thanks,
Russell

 

[johnday]

What operating system? What Perl? What was the Crypt::SSLeay error when you inistalled?

 

[rpanella]

OS: Fedora Core 5
Perl 5.8.8

This is the output when I try to install Crypt::SSLeay


cpan> install Crypt::SSLeay
CPAN: Storable loaded ok
Going to read /root/.cpan/Metadata
Database was generated on Wed, 30 Aug 2006 05:31:43 GMT
Running install for module Crypt::SSLeay
Running make for C/CH/CHAMAS/Crypt-SSLeay-0.51.tar.gz
CPAN: Digest::SHA loaded ok

CPAN: Module::Signature security checks disabled because Module::Signature
not installed. Please consider installing the Module::Signature module.
You may also need to be able to connect over the Internet to the public
keyservers like pgp.mit.edu (port 11371).

CPAN: Compress::Zlib loaded ok
Checksum for /root/.cpan/sources/authors/id/C/CH/CHAMAS/Crypt-SSLeay-0.51.tar.gz ok
Scanning cache /root/.cpan/build for sizes
Crypt-SSLeay-0.51/
Crypt-SSLeay-0.51/t/
Crypt-SSLeay-0.51/t/net_ssl.t
Crypt-SSLeay-0.51/t/ssl_context.t
Crypt-SSLeay-0.51/lib/
Crypt-SSLeay-0.51/lib/Crypt/
Crypt-SSLeay-0.51/lib/Crypt/SSLeay/
Crypt-SSLeay-0.51/lib/Crypt/SSLeay/MainContext.pm
Crypt-SSLeay-0.51/lib/Crypt/SSLeay/Conn.pm
Crypt-SSLeay-0.51/lib/Crypt/SSLeay/X509.pm
Crypt-SSLeay-0.51/lib/Crypt/SSLeay/Err.pm
Crypt-SSLeay-0.51/lib/Crypt/SSLeay/CTX.pm
Crypt-SSLeay-0.51/lib/Net/
Crypt-SSLeay-0.51/lib/Net/SSL.pm
Crypt-SSLeay-0.51/certs/
Crypt-SSLeay-0.51/certs/ca-bundle.crt
Crypt-SSLeay-0.51/certs/notacakeynopass.pem
Crypt-SSLeay-0.51/certs/notacacert.pem
Crypt-SSLeay-0.51/MANIFEST
Crypt-SSLeay-0.51/typemap
Crypt-SSLeay-0.51/MANIFEST.SKIP
Crypt-SSLeay-0.51/SSLeay.pm
Crypt-SSLeay-0.51/CHANGES
Crypt-SSLeay-0.51/lwp-ssl-test
Crypt-SSLeay-0.51/net_ssl_test
Crypt-SSLeay-0.51/SSLeay.xs
Crypt-SSLeay-0.51/README
Crypt-SSLeay-0.51/Makefile.PL
Removing previously used /root/.cpan/build/Crypt-SSLeay-0.51

CPAN.pm: Going to build C/CH/CHAMAS/Crypt-SSLeay-0.51.tar.gz

Found OpenSSL (version OpenSSL 0.9.8) installed at /usr
Which OpenSSL build path do you want to link against? [/usr]

================================================
BUILD INFORMATION
================================================

ssl dir: /usr
libraries: -lssl -lcrypto -lgcc -lRSAglue -lrsaref
include dir: /usr/include
ssl header: openssl/ssl.h
ssl candidate: /usr; /usr/include/openssl; OpenSSL 0.9.8

================================================

Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Note (probably harmless): No library found for -lgcc
Note (probably harmless): No library found for -lRSAglue
Note (probably harmless): No library found for -lrsaref
Writing Makefile for Crypt::SSLeay
cp lib/Crypt/SSLeay/X509.pm blib/lib/Crypt/SSLeay/X509.pm
cp lib/Net/SSL.pm blib/lib/Net/SSL.pm
cp SSLeay.pm blib/lib/Crypt/SSLeay.pm
cp lib/Crypt/SSLeay/MainContext.pm blib/lib/Crypt/SSLeay/MainContext.pm
cp lib/Crypt/SSLeay/CTX.pm blib/lib/Crypt/SSLeay/CTX.pm
cp lib/Crypt/SSLeay/Conn.pm blib/lib/Crypt/SSLeay/Conn.pm
cp lib/Crypt/SSLeay/Err.pm blib/lib/Crypt/SSLeay/Err.pm
/usr/bin/perl /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/ExtUtils/xsubpp -typemap /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/ExtUtils/typemap -typemap typemap SSLeay.xs > SSLeay.xsc && mv SSLeay.xsc SSLeay.c
gcc -c -I/usr/include -D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -Wdeclaration-after-statement -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/usr/include/gdbm -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m32 -march=i386 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -DVERSION=\"0.51\" -DXS_VERSION=\"0.51\" -fPIC "-I/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE" SSLeay.c
SSLeay.c: In function âXS_Crypt__SSLeay__CTX_newâ:
SSLeay.c:120: warning: unused variable âpacknameâ
SSLeay.xs: In function âXS_Crypt__SSLeay__CTX_use_pkcs12_fileâ:
SSLeay.xs:177: warning: suggest parentheses around assignment used as truth value
SSLeay.xs: In function âXS_Crypt__SSLeay__Conn_newâ:
SSLeay.xs:252: warning: passing argument 2 of âSSL_set_info_callbackâ from incompatible pointer type
SSLeay.c:398: warning: unused variable âpacknameâ
SSLeay.c: In function âXS_Crypt__SSLeay__CTX_use_pkcs12_fileâ:
SSLeay.c:288: warning: âRETVALâ may be used uninitialized in this function
Running Mkbootstrap for Crypt::SSLeay ()
chmod 644 SSLeay.bs
rm -f blib/arch/auto/Crypt/SSLeay/SSLeay.so
gcc -shared -L/usr/local/lib SSLeay.o -o blib/arch/auto/Crypt/SSLeay/SSLeay.so \
-L/usr/lib -lssl -lcrypto \

chmod 755 blib/arch/auto/Crypt/SSLeay/SSLeay.so
cp SSLeay.bs blib/arch/auto/Crypt/SSLeay/SSLeay.bs
chmod 644 blib/arch/auto/Crypt/SSLeay/SSLeay.bs
Manifying blib/man3/Crypt::SSLeay.3pm
/usr/bin/make -- OK
Running make test
PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t
t/net_ssl........dubious
Test returned status 0 (wstat 11, 0xb)
t/ssl_context....dubious
Test returned status 0 (wstat 11, 0xb)
FAILED--2 test scripts could be run, alas--no output ever seen
make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 255
/usr/bin/make test -- NOT OK
Running make install
make test had returned bad status, won't install without force
Failed during this command:
CHAMAS/Crypt-SSLeay-0.51.tar.gz : make_test NO

 

[johnday]

The first test it failed is this:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use lib qw(../lib ./lib);

use Net::SSL;

my $sock;
eval {
$sock = Net::SSL->new(
PeerAddr => '127.0.0.1',
PeerPort => 40000,
Timeout => 3,
);
};

print "1..1\n";
print $@;
if($@ && ($@ !~ /Connect failed/i)) {
print "not ok\n";
} else {
print "ok\n";
}

The tst is trying to contact your own machine and cannot. Assuming you are running this on a server it would asume you need to have something listening to receive the connection? Maybe look at the docs on Net::SSL as well.

 

[rpanella]

Running that test manually gives the error that Net/SSL.pm cannot be found, which makes sense since that is what I'm trying to install in the first place.

Net::SSL is the same as Crypt::SSLeay as far as I can tell since running a cpan install Net::SSL tries to install the same Cyrpt::SSLeay module.