NAME
Crypt::SSLeay - OpenSSL glue that provides LWP https support
SYNOPSIS
lwp-request https://www.nodeworks.com
use LWP::UserAgent;
my $ua = new LWP::UserAgent;
my $req = new HTTP::Request('GET', 'https://www.nodeworks.com');
my $res = $ua->request($req);
print $res->code."\n";
# PROXY SUPPORT
$ENV{HTTPS_PROXY} = 'http://proxy_hostname_or_ip:port';
# PROXY_BASIC_AUTH
$ENV{HTTPS_PROXY_USERNAME} = 'username';
$ENV{HTTPS_PROXY_PASSWORD} = 'password';
# DEFAULT SSL VERSION
$ENV{HTTPS_VERSION} = '3';
# CLIENT CERT SUPPORT
$ENV{HTTPS_CERT_FILE} = 'certs/notacacert.pem';
$ENV{HTTPS_KEY_FILE} = 'certs/notacakeynopass.pem';
# CA CERT PEER VERIFICATION
$ENV{HTTPS_CA_FILE} = 'certs/ca-bundle.crt';
$ENV{HTTPS_CA_DIR} = 'certs/';
# CLIENT PKCS12 CERT SUPPORT
$ENV{HTTPS_PKCS12_FILE} = 'certs/pkcs12.pkcs12';
$ENV{HTTPS_PKCS12_PASSWORD} = 'PKCS12_PASSWORD';
DESCRIPTION
This perl module provides support for the https
protocol under LWP, so that a LWP::UserAgent can
make https GET & HEAD & POST requests. Please see
perldoc LWP for more information on POST requests.
The Crypt::SSLeay package contains Net::SSL,
which is automatically loaded by LWP::Protocol::https
on https requests, and provides the necessary SSL glue
for that module to work via these deprecated modules:
Crypt::SSLeay::CTX
Crypt::SSLeay::Conn
Crypt::SSLeay::X509
Work on Crypt::SSLeay has been continued only to
provide https support for the LWP - libwww perl
libraries. If you want access to the OpenSSL
API via perl, check out Sampo's Net::SSLeay.
INSTALL
You must have OpenSSL or SSLeay installed before compiling
this module. You can get the latest OpenSSL package from:
http://www.openssl.org
When installing openssl make sure your config looks like:
> ./config --openssldir=/usr/local/openssl
or
> ./config --openssldir=/usr/local/ssl
then
> make
> make test
> make install
This way Crypt::SSLeay will pick up the includes and
libraries automatically. If your includes end up
going into a separate directory like /usr/local/include,
then you may need to symlink /usr/local/openssl/include
to /usr/local/include
The latest Crypt::SSLeay can be found at your nearest CPAN,
and also:
http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/modules/by-module/Crypt/
Once you have downloaded it, Crypt::SSLeay installs easily
using the make or nmake commands as shown below.
> perl Makefile.PL
> make
> make test
> make install
* use nmake for win32
!!! NOTE for Win32 users, few people seem to be able to build
W Crypt::SSLeay successfully on that platform. You don't need
I to because ActiveState has already compiled it for you,
N and is available for their perl builds 618 & 522 as a ppm
3 install. It may also be available for their latest build.
2 Keywords: WinNT, Win95, Win98, 95, 98, NT, 2000
!!! Please see http://www.activestate.com/
PROXY SUPPORT
LWP::UserAgent and Crypt::SSLeay have their own versions of
proxy support. Please read these sections to see which one
may be right for you.
LWP::UserAgent has its own methods of proxying which may work for
you and is likely incompatible with Crypt::SSLeay proxy support.
To use LWP::UserAgent proxy support, try something like:
my $ua = new LWP::UserAgent;
$ua->proxy([qw( https http )], "$proxy_ip:$proxy_port");
At the time of this writing, libwww v5.6 seems to proxy https
requests fine with an Apache mod_proxy server. It sends a line like:
GET https://www.nodeworks.com HTTP/1.1
to the proxy server, which is not the CONNECT request that
some proxies would expect, so this may not work with other
proxy servers than mod_proxy. The CONNECT method is used
by Crypt::SSLeay's internal proxy support.
For native Crypt::SSLeay proxy support of https requests,
you need to set an environment variable HTTPS_PROXY to your
proxy server & port, as in:
# PROXY SUPPORT
$ENV{HTTPS_PROXY} = 'http://proxy_hostname_or_ip:port';
$ENV{HTTPS_PROXY} = '127.0.0.1:8080';
Use of the HTTPS_PROXY environment variable in this way
is similar to LWP::UserAgent->env_proxy() usage, but calling
that method will likely override or break the Crypt::SSLeay
support, so do not mix the two.
Basic auth credentials to the proxy server can be provided
this way:
# PROXY_BASIC_AUTH
$ENV{HTTPS_PROXY_USERNAME} = 'username';
$ENV{HTTPS_PROXY_PASSWORD} = 'password';
For an example of LWP scripting with Crypt::SSLeay native proxy
support, please see the source of the ./lwp-ssl-test script in the
Crypt::SSLeay distribution.
CLIENT CERTIFICATE SUPPORT
Certificate support is new provided by patches from Tobias Manthey.
Is ALPHA as of .25, but looking pretty stable as of .29.
PEM encoded certificate and private key files may be used like this:
$ENV{HTTPS_CERT_FILE} = 'certs/notacacert.pem';
$ENV{HTTPS_KEY_FILE} = 'certs/notacakeynopass.pem';
You may test your files with the ./net_ssl_test program
by issuing a command like:
./net_ssl_test -cert=certs/notacacert.pem -key=certs/notacakeynopass.pem -d GET $HOST_NAME
Additionally, if you would like to tell the client where
the CA file is, you may set these. These *CA* configs
are ALPHA as of version .29.
$ENV{HTTPS_CA_FILE} = "some_file";
$ENV{HTTPS_CA_DIR} = "some_dir";
There is no sample CA cert file at this time for testing,
but you may configure ./net_ssl_test to use your CA cert
with the -CAfile option.
To create simple test certificates with openssl, you may:
/usr/local/openssl/bin/openssl req -config /usr/local/openssl/openssl.cnf -new -days 365 -newkey rsa:1024 -x509 -keyout notacakey.pem -out notacacert.pem
To remove the pass phrase from the key file, execute this:
/usr/local/openssl/bin/openssl rsa -in notacakey.pem -out notacakeynopass.pem
New as of version .45 is PKCS12 certificate support thanks to Daisuke Kuroda
The directives for enabling use of these certificates is:
$ENV{HTTPS_PKCS12_FILE} = 'certs/pkcs12.pkcs12';
$ENV{HTTPS_PKCS12_PASSWORD} = 'PKCS12_PASSWORD';
Use of this type of certificate will take precedence over previous
certificate settings described.
SSL VERSIONS
Crypt::SSLeay tries very hard to connect to ANY SSL web server
trying to accomodate servers that are buggy, old or simply
not standards compliant. To this effect, this module will
try SSL connections in this order:
SSL v23 - should allow v2 & v3 servers to pick their best type
SSL v3 - best connection type
SSL v2 - old connection type
Unfortunately, some servers seem not to handle a reconnect
to SSL v3 after a failed connect of SSL v23 is tried,
so you may set before using LWP or Net::SSL:
$ENV{HTTPS_VERSION} = 3;
so that a SSL v3 connection is tried first. At this time
only a SSL v2 connection will be tried after this, as the
connection attempt order remains unchanged by this setting.
COMPATIBILITY
This module has been compiled on the following platforms:
PLATFORM CPU SSL PERL VER DATE WHO
-------- --- --- ---- --- ---- ---
WinNT SP6 x86 OpenSSL 0.9.6a 5.00601 .45 2002-08-01 Joshua Chamas
Linux 2.4.7 x86 OpenSSL 0.9.6d 5.00800 .45 2002-08-01 Joshua Chamas
Linux 2.4.7 x86 OpenSSL 0.9.6 5.00601 .39 2002-06-23 Joshua Chamas
Solaris 2.8 Sparc ? 5.00503 .37 2002-05-31 Christopher Biow
OpenBSD 2.8 Sparc ? 5.00600 .25 2001-04-11 Tim Ayers
Linux 2.2.14 x86 OpenSSL 0.9.6 5.00503 .25 2001-04-10 Joshua Chamas
WinNT SP6 x86 OpenSSL 0.9.4 5.00404 .25 2001-04-10 Joshua Chamas
Solaris 2.7 Sparc OpenSSL 0.9.6 5.00503 .22 2001-03-01 Dave Paris
AIX 4.3.2 RS/6000 OpenSSL 0.9.6 5.6.0 .19 2001-01-08 Peter Heimann
Solaris 2.6 x86 OpenSSL 0.9.5a 5.00501 .17 2000-09-04 Joshua Chamas
Linux 2.2.12 x86 OpenSSL 0.9.5a 5.00503 .16 2000-07-13 David Harris
FreeBSD 3.2 ?x86 OpenSSL 0.9.2b 5.00503 ? 1999-09-29 Rip Toren
Solaris 2.6 ?Sparc OpenSSL 0.9.4 5.00404 ? 1999-08-24 Patrick Killelea
FreeBSD 2.2.5 x86 OpenSSL 0.9.3 5.00404 ? 1999-08-19 Andy Lee
Solaris 2.5.1 USparc OpenSSL 0.9.4 5.00503 ? 1999-08-18 Marek Rouchal
Solaris 2.6 x86 SSLeay 0.8.0 5.00501 ? 1999-08-12 Joshua Chamas
Linux 2.2.10 x86 OpenSSL 0.9.4 5.00503 ? 1999-08-11 John Barrett
WinNT SP4 x86 SSLeay 0.9.2 5.00404 ? 1999-08-10 Joshua Chamas
BUILD NOTES
If you cannot get it to build on your windows box, try
ActiveState perl, at least their builds 522 & 618 are
known to have a ppm install of Crypt::SSLeay available.
Please see http://www.activestate.com for more info.
The __umoddi3 problem applies here as well when compiling with gcc.
Alternative solution:
In Makefile.PL, prepend -L/usr/local/<path to your gcc lib>/<version>
to the $LIBS value. Add after line 82:
$LIBS = '-L' . dirname(`gcc -print-libgcc-file-name`) . ' ' . $LIBS;
Problem:
On Solaris x86, the default PERL configuration, and preferred, is to use
the ld linker that comes with the OS, not gcc. Unfortunately during the
OpenSSL build process, gcc generates in libcrypto.a, from bn_word.c,
the undefined symbol __umoddi3, which is supposed to be later resolved
by gcc from libgcc.a
The system ld linker does not know about libgcc.a by default, so
when building Crypt::SSLeay, there is a linker error for __umoddi3
Solution:
The fix for this symlink your libgcc.a to some standard directory
like /usr/local/lib, so that the system linker, ld, can find
it when building Crypt::SSLeay.
If you encounter this error: "...des.h:96: #error _ is
defined, but some strange definition the DES library cannot handle
that...," then you need to edit the des.h file and comment out the
"#error" line.
Its looks like this error might be common to other operating
systems, and that occurs with OpenSSL 0.9.3. Upgrades to
0.9.4 seem to fix this problem.
Problems: (initial build was fine, but execution of Perl scripts had problems)
Got a message "ld.so: Undefined symbol: _CRYPT_mem_ctrl"
solution: In the Makefile, comment out the line with
"-fpic" (also try changing to "-fPIC", and this works
also, not sure if one is preferred).
NOTES
Many thanks to Gisle Aas for the original writing of
this module and many others including libwww for perl.
The web will never be the same :)
Ben Laurie deserves kudos for his excellent patches
for better error handling, SSL information inspection,
and random seeding.
James Woodyatt is a champ for finding a ridiculous memory
leak that has been the bane of many a Crypt::SSLeay user.
Thanks to Bryan Hart for his patch adding proxy support,
and thanks to Tobias Manthey for submitting another approach.
Thanks to Alex Rhomberg for Alpha linux ccc patch.
Thanks to Tobias Manthey for his patches for client
certificate support.
Thanks to Gamid Isayev for CA cert support and
insight into error messaging.
Thanks to Jeff Long for working through a tricky CA
cert SSLClientVerify issue.
Thanks to Chip Turner for patch to build under perl 5.8.0
SUPPORT
For OpenSSL and Crypt::SSLeay support, please email the
openssl user mailing list at openssl-
Emails to the list sent with at least Crypt::SSLeay in the
subject line will be responded to more quickly by myself.
Please make the subject line informative like
Subject: [Crypt::SSLeay] compile problems on Solaris
This module was originally written by Gisle Aas, and I am
now maintaining it.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 1999-2002 Joshua Chamas.
Copyright (c) 1998 Gisle Aas.
This program is free software; you can redistribute
it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
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