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diff --git a/www/p5-LWP-Protocol-https/pkg-descr b/www/p5-LWP-Protocol-https/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..76afd158f49e --- /dev/null +++ b/www/p5-LWP-Protocol-https/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +The LWP::Protocol::https module provide 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. + +WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/LWP-Protocol-https/ |