perl-IO-Socket-SSL

Nearly transparent SSL encapsulation for IO::Socket::INET.

This module provides an interface to SSL sockets, similar to other IO::Socket modules. Because of that, it can be used to make existing programs using IO::Socket::INET or similar modules to provide SSL encryption without much effort. IO::Socket::SSL supports all the extra features that one needs to write a full-featured SSL client or server application: multiple SSL contexts, cipher selection, certificate verification, Server Name Indication (SNI), Next Protocol Negotiation (NPN), SSL version selection and more. If you have never used SSL before, you should read the appendix labelled 'Using SSL' before attempting to use this module. If you want to use SSL with non-blocking sockets and/or within an event loop please read very carefully the sections about non-blocking I/O and polling of SSL sockets. If you are trying to use it with threads see the BUGS section.