Copyright (C) 2000-2012 |
Manpages HandleSection: User Contributed Perl Documentation (3)Updated: 2001-07-28 Index Return to Main Contents NAMENet::SSLeay::Handle - Perl module that lets SSL (HTTPS) sockets be handled as standard file handles.SYNOPSISuse Net::SSLeay::Handle qw/shutdown/; my ($host, $port) = ("localhost", 443); tie(*SSL, "Net::SSLeay::Handle", $host, $port); print SSL "GET / HTTP/1.0\r\n"; shutdown(\*SSL, 1); print while (<SSL>); close SSL; DESCRIPTIONNet::SSLeay::Handle allows you to request and receive HTTPS web pages using ``old-fashion'' file handles as in:
print <SSL> "GET / HTTP/1.0\r\n";and
print while (<SSL>);If you export the shutdown routine, then the only extra code that you need to add to your program is the tie function as in:
my $socket; if ($scheme eq "https") { tie(*S2, "Net::SSLeay::Handle", host, $port); $socket = \*S2; else { $socket = Net::SSLeay::Handle->make_socket(host, $port); } print $socket $request_headers; ... USING EXISTING SOCKETSOne of the motivations for writing this module was to avoid duplicating socket creation code (which is mostly error handling). The calls to tie() above where it is passed a $host and $port is provided for convenience testing. If you already have a socket connected to the right host and port, S1, then you can do something like:
my $socket \*S1; if ($scheme eq "https") { tie(*S2, "Net::SSLeay::Handle", $socket); $socket = \*S2; } my $last_sel = select($socket); $| = 1; select($last_sel); print $socket $request_headers; ...Note: As far as I know you must be careful with the globs in the tie() function. The first parameter must be a glob (*SOMETHING) and the last parameter must be a reference to a glob (\*SOMETHING_ELSE) or a scaler that was assigned to a reference to a glob (as in the example above) Also, the two globs must be different. When I tried to use the same glob, I got a core dump. EXPORTNone by default.You can export the shutdown() function. It is suggested that you do export shutdown() or use the fully qualified Net::SSLeay::Handle::shutdown() function to shutdown SSL sockets. It should be smart enough to distinguish between SSL and non-SSL sockets and do the right thing. EXAMPLESuse Net::SSLeay::Handle qw/shutdown/; my ($host, $port) = ("localhost", 443); tie(*SSL, "Net::SSLeay::Handle", $host, $port); print SSL "GET / HTTP/1.0\r\n"; shutdown(\*SSL, 1); print while (<SSL>); close SSL; TODOBetter error handling. Callback routine?CAVEATSTying to a file handle is a little tricky (for me at least).The first parameter to tie() must be a glob (*SOMETHING) and the last parameter must be a reference to a glob (\*SOMETHING_ELSE) or a scaler that was assigned to a reference to a glob ($s = \*SOMETHING_ELSE). Also, the two globs must be different. When I tried to use the same glob, I got a core dump. I was able to associate attributes to globs created by this module (like *SSL above) by making a hash of hashes keyed by the file head1. AUTHORJim Bowlin jbowlin@linklint.orgSEE ALSONet::SSLeay
IndexThis document was created by man2html, using the manual pages. Time: 08:48:57 GMT, April 26, 2024 |