Net-SSLeay-1.32 Confusion

[ro...@robob.com]

Hello Folks,

OpenCA tells me I need IO:Socket::SSL which apparently needs Net::SSLeay.  Installing Net::SSLeay from  the interactive CPAN utility fails.  So I downloaded Net-SSLeay-1.32.  At the top of the README for Net-SSLeay-.32 is the following: 

README - Net::SSLeay  Perl module for using OpenSSL

Later the reaadme says:

Note: SSLeay is no longer supported. If you want to use Net::SSLeay with
      SSLeay or early versions of OpenSSL, use version 1.03. The support
      for SSLeay was dropped due to nobody maintaining it (all active
      work goes on with OpenSSL) and due to incompatible API changes
      in OpenSSL-0.9.2b. OpenSSL-0.9.1c support has also been dropped,
      version 1.03 was the last one to support that.

Huh?  If SSLeay is not supported then what is Net-SSLeay-1.32 for?  What do I neeed to get IO::Socket:SSL to install?

Thanks,
Robert A. Ober

Re: Net-SSLeay-1.32 Confusion

[Heiko Jansen <ja...@hbz-nrw.de>]

Am Freitag, den 28.03.2008, 12:23 -0500 schrieb robob@robob.com:
> Hello Folks,
> 
> OpenCA tells me I need IO:Socket::SSL which apparently needs
>  Net::SSLeay.  Installing Net::SSLeay from  the interactive CPAN
>  utility fails.  So I downloaded Net-SSLeay-1.32.  At the top of the
>  README for Net-SSLeay-.32 is the following: 
> 
> README - Net::SSLeay  Perl module for using OpenSSL
> 
> Later the reaadme says:
> 
> Note: SSLeay is no longer supported. If you want to use Net::SSLeay with
>       SSLeay or early versions of OpenSSL, use version 1.03. The support
>       for SSLeay was dropped due to nobody maintaining it (all active
>       work goes on with OpenSSL) and due to incompatible API changes
>       in OpenSSL-0.9.2b. OpenSSL-0.9.1c support has also been dropped,
>       version 1.03 was the last one to support that.
> 
> Huh?  If SSLeay is not supported then what is Net-SSLeay-1.32 for? 

Well, the above tells you that Net::SSL no longer works with SSLeay or
with ancient versions of OpenSSL but requires OpenSSL post 0.9.2b to be
present on your system.

> What do I neeed to get IO::Socket:SSL to install?

According to it's POD I'd say you need Net::SSLeay which in turn needs a
more recent version of OpenSSL ;-)

Now the interesting question is why the Net::SSLeay installation did not
work. But we can't answer that without more info - but also this is a
topic beyond the scope of this list...

heiko