On Fri, 3 Dec 2021 12:41:08 +0100 Salvador Fandino <sfandino@gmail.com> wrote: > In this regard, and in the context of just bootstrapping a CPAN client, I think that using standalone TLS/HTTPS clients should be also considered. > > Getting Net::SSLeay to compile against OpenSSL (or any other SSL client library) can be pretty difficult, but just wrapping something like "openssl s_client" command is mostly trivial. "socat", "curl" or "wget" are other options. CPAN.pm already uses wget or curl when IO::Socket::SSL isn't available and a https mirror was requested.Thread Previous | Thread Next