FIXED: 500 Can't verify SSL peers without knowning which Certificate Authorities to trust

Having problems using LWP::UserAgent with SSL hosts? Try installing Mozilla::CA.

500 Can't verify SSL peers without knowning which Certificate Authorities to trust

Props to Corion for posting this tip to perlmonks.

2011-03-08 Release 6.00

Unbundled all modules not in the LWP:: namespace from the libwww-perl distribution. The new broken out CPAN distribtions are File-Listing, HTML-Form, HTTP-Cookies, HTTP-Daemon, HTTP-Date, HTTP-Message, HTTP-Negotiate, Net-HTTP, and WWW-RobotRules. libwww-perl-6 require these to be installed.

This release also drops the unmaintained lwp-rget script from the distribution.

Perl v5.8.8 or better is now required. For older versions of perl please stay with libwww-perl-5.837.

For https://... default to verified connections with require IO::Socket::SSL and Mozilla::CA modules to be installed. Old behaviour can be requested by setting the PERL_LWP_SSL_VERIFY_HOSTNAME environment variable to 0. The LWP::UserAgent got new ssl_opts method to control this as well.

Support internationalized URLs from command line scripts and in the proxy environment variables.

The lwp-dump script got new --request option.

The lwp-request script got new -E option, contributed by Tony Finch.

Protocol handlers and callbacks can raise HTTP::Response objects as exceptions. This will abort the current request and make LWP return the raised response.

-- LWP 6.00 release notes 2011/03/08(emphasis mine).