# Net::HTTPS - Low-level HTTP over SSL/TLS connection (client) - perldoc - [phpMan]

## NAME
    [Net::HTTPS](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Net%3A%3AHTTPS/markdown) - Low-level HTTP over SSL/TLS connection (client)

## VERSION
    version 6.23

## DESCRIPTION
    The "[Net::HTTPS](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Net%3A%3AHTTPS/markdown)" is a low-level HTTP over SSL/TLS client. The interface is the same as the
    interface for "[Net::HTTP](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Net%3A%3AHTTP/markdown)", but the constructor takes additional parameters as accepted by
    [IO::Socket::SSL](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/IO%3A%3ASocket%3A%3ASSL/markdown). The "[Net::HTTPS](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Net%3A%3AHTTPS/markdown)" object is an "[IO::Socket::SSL](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/IO%3A%3ASocket%3A%3ASSL/markdown)" too, which makes it inherit
    additional methods from that base class.

    For historical reasons this module also supports using "[Net::SSL](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Net%3A%3ASSL/markdown)" (from the Crypt-SSLeay
    distribution) as its SSL driver and base class. This base is automatically selected if available
    and "[IO::Socket::SSL](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/IO%3A%3ASocket%3A%3ASSL/markdown)" isn't. You might also force which implementation to use by setting
    $[Net::HTTPS::SSL_SOCKET_CLASS](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Net%3A%3AHTTPS%3A%3ASSLSOCKETCLASS/markdown) 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](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Net%3A%3AHTTPS/markdown) base class) to use. The default is "[IO::Socket::SSL](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/IO%3A%3ASocket%3A%3ASSL/markdown)".
    Currently the only other supported value is "[Net::SSL](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Net%3A%3ASSL/markdown)".

## SEE ALSO
    [Net::HTTP](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Net%3A%3AHTTP/markdown), [IO::Socket::SSL](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/IO%3A%3ASocket%3A%3ASSL/markdown)

## AUTHOR
    Gisle Aas <<gisle@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.