Source: libcrypt-ssleay-perl Maintainer: Debian Perl Group Uploaders: gregor herrmann Section: perl Testsuite: autopkgtest-pkg-perl Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13), dh-sequence-perl-openssl, libbytes-random-secure-perl , libdevel-checklib-perl, libio-socket-ip-perl , libssl-dev, libtest-pod-coverage-perl , libtest-pod-perl , openssl , perl-openssl-defaults, perl-xs-dev, perl:native Standards-Version: 4.6.1 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libcrypt-ssleay-perl Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/libcrypt-ssleay-perl.git Homepage: https://metacpan.org/release/Crypt-SSLeay Rules-Requires-Root: no Package: libcrypt-ssleay-perl Architecture: any Depends: ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}, libbytes-random-secure-perl Recommends: libio-socket-ip-perl Description: OpenSSL support for LWP This perl module provides support for the HTTPS protocol under LWP, so that an 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 and 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 (available in Debian as the libnet-ssleay-perl package).