Credentials and POST method with IO::Socket::SSL?

[Mark G.]

Hello.

I need to send form data to a secure server, using the POST method.
I have successfully used IO::Socket::SSL with the GET method, but
I cannot find any examples of posting data using this module.

Can anyone here help?

Thanks
-Mark

[Mark G.]

"Mark G." <nospam@thanksanyway.org> wrote:

> Hello.
>
> I need to send form data to a secure server, using the POST method.
> I have successfully used IO::Socket::SSL with the GET method, but
> I cannot find any examples of posting data using this module.

Well, I got that working. . .encrypted data is flowing.

Unfortunately, I am getting a 400 response with "Bad Request (Invalid Header
Name)."
It looks like I'll be curling up with a good RFC this evening.

-Mark

[Brian McCauley]

Mark G. wrote:

> I need to send form data to a secure server, using the POST method.
> I have successfully used IO::Socket::SSL with the GET method, but
> I cannot find any examples of posting data using this module.

IIRC, although IO::Socket::SSL contains a rudimentary HTTPS client
implementation it's more common practice, better documented, more
complete and more reliable to use the HTTPS implementation in LWP
instead.

Note: This this still uses IO::Socket::SSL to do the SSL but uses the
HTTP implementation from LWP.