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NAME
    Net::HTTPS - Low-level HTTP over SSL/TLS connection (client)

VERSION
    version 6.22

DESCRIPTION
    The "Net::HTTPS" is a low-level HTTP over SSL/TLS client. The interface is the same as the
    interface for "Net::HTTP", but the constructor takes additional parameters as accepted by
    IO::Socket::SSL. The "Net::HTTPS" object is an "IO::Socket::SSL" too, which makes it inherit
    additional methods from that base class.

    For historical reasons this module also supports using "Net::SSL" (from the Crypt-SSLeay
    distribution) as its SSL driver and base class. This base is automatically selected if available
    and "IO::Socket::SSL" isn't. You might also force which implementation to use by setting
    $Net::HTTPS::SSL_SOCKET_CLASS before loading this module. If not set this variable is
    initialized from the "PERL_NET_HTTPS_SSL_SOCKET_CLASS" environment variable.

ENVIRONMENT
    You might set the "PERL_NET_HTTPS_SSL_SOCKET_CLASS" environment variable to the name of the base
    SSL implementation (and Net::HTTPS base class) to use. The default is "IO::Socket::SSL".
    Currently the only other supported value is "Net::SSL".

SEE ALSO
    Net::HTTP, IO::Socket::SSL

AUTHOR
    Gisle Aas <gisle AT activestate.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
    This software is copyright (c) 2001 by Gisle Aas.

    This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl
    5 programming language system itself.