Comments: HTTPS protocol with ActiveState Perl

Thanks, I had a script which broke, and I had forgotten about all the 'good stuff' being at uwinnipeg.

Cheers -bob c

I'm having trouble with this... I'm on an XP machine, so perhaps that's it...

I'm using ActiveState Perl 5, build 881 running on an XP professional system.

I was able to install the SSL module as described, except the order of file installation was a little different (probably no big deal) and this:

A copy of the needed library ssleay32.dll was found in
C:\WINDOWS\system32. If this is compatible with the version
(0.9.7g) used to compile the Perl module, all that is needed
to complete the installation is to ensure
C:\WINDOWS\system32 is in your PATH environment variable.

Fetch ssleay32.dll? [no]
Aborting download of ssleay32.dll.
Successfully installed Crypt-SSLeay version 0.51 in ActivePerl
5.8.6.811.

It never prompted me to do anything, it just stopped. I exited ppm and ran the test script you provided. Instead of giving the Perl errors, I get a popup error that says:

The ordinal 3212 could not be located in the dynamic link library
LIBEAY32.dll

I downloaded the DLLs provided and tried to see if that would work, no joy. I've thrice-checked my PATH to make sure it's correct and it is.

Any ideas?

Thanks -mike

No worries Mike. I leave your first post here in case other users encounter this problem as well.

By the way, I don't provide the download, I just wrote the how to.

Great! Does this also make HTTP::Daemon support SSL connections? Because that is what I need.

Hi all,

I have one problem,please help me out. I am not able to understand ,how one can post the https page.Getting the https page is fine,it is working. Can you just let me know wt modules are required and what is the syntax for the post operation.

Regards, Chirag

I did not see an error message about "Ordinal 3212" when I installed Crypt-SSLeay, however I did get serveal warnings during the install...

A copy of the needed library ssleay32.dll was found in C:\WINDOWS\system32. If this is compatible with the version (0.9.7g) used to compile the Perl module, all that is needed to complete the installation is to ensure C:\WINDOWS\system32 is in your PATH environment variable.

I saw a simimar message for libeay32.dll. When I ran the test script, I kept getting messages that Crypt:SSLeay was not installed. So aparently the pre-existing ssleay32.dll and libeay32.dll were there from some other program that I had already installed and were *not* compatible with ActiveState Perl. Once I renamed the two files located C:\WINDOWS\system32, the proper DLLs located in my Perl directory were getting called and my Perl scripts started working. The $64 question now is, I wonder what program I just broke by renaming the two DLLs in C:\WINDOWS\system32.

I am having problems connecting to Helsinki using this package. I'm trying to test connecting to the https://www.helsinki.fi page via a proxy. I am able to reach an http://google.com just fine.

The error message I get is:

HTTP Error: 500 Can't connect to www.helsinki.fi:443 (Bad hostname 'www.helsinki.fi')

Thanks for posting the instructions for getting this up and running (we'll see if they work on my system!). The only remaining question for the moment is why in jeebus' name ActiveState doesn't provide this support.

Cheers,

---Michael B.

Hey guys,

I'm having the same (or similar) problem as another poster. I get the following:

500 Connect failed: connect: Unknown error; Unknown error

This machine uses a proxy, but I am able to get normal http web pages to work, so I think the proxy is set up ok.

Suggestions?

The installation went exactly as you described, but when I run the test script, perl exits without printing wither the HTTPS response or an error message.

In running Windows 2003 Server with ActiveState perl 5.8.7.

Any idea what could cause this?

It worked like a charm for me!

Question though...what is the lifetime of the perl module? Will the University of Winnipeg continue to have this posted? Also historical, why doesn't cpan have it? Is it due to politics?

Thanks

Oups! the chdir solution was provided by Xenna not WorknMan.... Sorry

Jerome

Great write-up. I added a line to print "Content-type: text/html\n\n" so I could run the script from a browser, but am having a wierd problem. When I run the script from a DOS command prompt, I get the output exactly as expected. (It prints out the content header as well as returns all of the HTML) If I run it from a browser, though, "//localhost/ssl.pl" I get the error message "Failed to GET 'https://www.helsinki.fi/': 501 Protocol scheme 'https' is not supported (Crypt::SSLeay not installed) at c:\inetpub\wwwroot\ssl.pl line 18." Is there any reason why running the script from a DOS prompt finds the module, but running it through IIS does not? I can't figure it out. Thanks for any help.

--Seth

@Seth - my best guess is that IIS, running as a special user (IUSR_XXXX with XXXX the name of the machine), is not allowed to read the required DLL(s) needed for SSL. I doubt it has problems with loading the Crypt::SSLeay module.

What you could try is see if you can open the DLL(s) from a script you run in IIS. My guess is you can't, and in that case you can give the IUSR_XXXX reading rights to the DLL(s)

I used the LWP::Authen::Ntlm module and fiddled with the code having authentication problems until I specified the https port 443.

It works.

I am very greatful for the help. I looks like I will be having to do more https downloading and will keep an eye on your site.

I might have some small projects if you are interested.

Thanks again

Thanks for the guide John.

It worked perfectly for me on Win32, and setting the perl/bin/ into the system path, my perl compilation is portable too.

However, on linux (FC4) I get the error message "Error: no suitable installation target found for package Crypt::SSLeay"

and searching through the Activestate bug tracker, this bug is usually indicating that the build of perl is different from the build of the package I am trying to install. (Although it is the same as the build which just worked fine on win32)

any suggestions? =( has anyone got Crypt::SSLeay to work on linux?

I installed that package on ActivePerl 5.8.8.819 it and worked just fine out of the box even though I have quite a few copies of those DLLs on my machine.

Hi

I am getting this error in winXP while i use LWP in module

"The ordinal 113 could not be located in the dynamic link library SSLEAY32.dll"

Please how to resolve this?

Thanks Uthay

Install worked fine. When I try to run the test script I get an error saying "VSINIT.dll not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem" Im running active state 5.8.8 build 817 on Win Xp home. The two dll's ssleay32.dll and libleay32.dll are both in the perl/bin dir which is also in the path statement. While writing this I copied the 2 dll's to the windows/system32 dir for the hell of it and it worked. May want to post this for others who may have this issue. Seems the path statement may not be what is used to locate the two dll's. Its 4 am so Im crashing out. see ya.

Hi All,

I am trying to install the Crypt:SSleay but am faced with lot of problems. I am using Activeperl V5.8.8. on WIndows XP. I have succefully installed the Openssl on my system. I am trying to install the module using ppm. Following are the steps i followed.

1) Installed Openssl from Openssl.org. 2) Downloaded the Crypt::SSLeay module from the in .tar format and unzipped the files into c:/perl/lib/Crypt-SSLeay-0.53 folder. 3) Downloaded the Nmake15.exe and ran it in the above directory. 4) Then using the Nmake.exe tried to create the ppd but the following exception was thrown!

C:\Perl\lib\CRYPT-~1.53>nmake
Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 1.50
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corp 1988-94. All rights reserved.
cl -c -Ic:\openssl\include -Ic:\openssl\inc32 -nologo -GF -W3 -MD -Zi
-DNDEBUG -O1 -DWIN32 -D_CONSOLE -DNO_STRICT -DHAVE_DES_FCRYPT
-DNO_HASH_SEED -DU
SE_SITECUSTOMIZE -DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS
-DUSE_PERLIO -DPERL
_MSVCRT_READFIX -MD -Zi -DNDEBUG -O1 -DVERSION=\"0.53\"
-DXS_VERSION=\"0.53\
" "-IC:\Perl\lib\CORE" SSLeay.c
'cl' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe' : return code
'0x1'
Stop.

I also tried another method

1) I tried ppm> install http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/Crypt-SSLeay.ppd but i got the following error!

ppm install failed: 404 Not Found

for this i also have set HTTP_proxy ,HTTP_proxy_usr and HTTP_proxy_pass environment variables... but still i get the same error.

I tried downloading this ppd and store it on my local machine and then re fire the install c:/Crypt-SSLeay.ppd but that too doesn't work.

CAn somebody point out wher am i going wrong!

Thanks and regards Dixit

@Marc - Based on the error "Element 'IMPLEMENTATION' cannot contain a child element 'PROVIDE'", which has to do with the ppd version, you picked the wrong version.

For ActivePerl builds 6xx use:

ppm install http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppmpackages/Crypt-SSLeay.ppd

For ActivePerl builds 8xx use:

ppm install http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppms/Crypt-SSLeay.ppd

I've added this information to the article itself as well.

Thanks for the feedback.

Thank you ! It is very useful with comments !!!

For everyone that use a proxy, try to modify the code in this way (this fixed the problem in my case):

my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;

 $ENV{HTTPS_PROXY} = "<my proxy address>:<my proxyport>";
# PROXY_BASIC_AUTH
 $ENV{HTTPS_PROXY_USERNAME} = '<my domain>/<my username>';
 $ENV{HTTPS_PROXY_PASSWORD} = '<my password>';  
# DEFAULT SSL VERSION
 $ENV{HTTPS_VERSION} = '3';
 
my $response = $ua->get( $url );

bye

Great deal.

Your description, how to install sslleay is very easy to handle. I've tried to install sslleay manually for hours and it failed again and again.

Thanks a lot.

Kind regards, Norbert

btw: When authorization to a website is required (error code 401), modul http mechanize is very helpfull. Please see this simple sample:

#!C:/Perl/bin/perl.exe -w
use strict;
use Crypt::SSLeay;
use WWW::Mechanize;

my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new( autocheck => 1 );
$mech->credentials( $ARGV[1], $ARGV[2]); # user + pw
$mech->get(   "https://......."); # enter URL here
my $page = $mech->content( format => 'text' ) ;

print "\n".$page;

Hi frens,

i am also getting problems with ssl module installation in perl (Windows xp os).

plz anyone help me by providing detailed steps to install that module (or) manual steps to place the files into perl installation directory. plz provide me as i need it urgently.....

Thanks in advance

Hello

I am getting this error while installing flash cs3

"The ordinal 113 could not be located in the dynamic link library SSLEAY32.dll"

Please how to resolve this?

Thanks Uthay