README - Net::SSLeay Perl module for using Eric Young's implementation of SSL

19.6.1998, Sampo Kellomaki <sampo@iki.fi>

Note: This module is _the_ `Net::SSLeay' namespace. Eric Young is
working on another module, which comes in the perl sub directory of
SSLeay-0.9.0, called `SSLeay'. These two modules are not related and
perl scripts written for one will not work with the other (though,
both modules can be simultaneously installed and your scripts are free
to mix and match :-)

By popular demand...
--------------------

   perl -e 'use Net::SSLeay; \
          ($p)=Net::SSLeay::get_https("www.cryptsoft.com", 443, "/"); print $p'

Prerequisites
-------------

perl5.004     - though anything starting from perl5.002 probably works. You
                need your perl in source code form.
SSLeay-0.9.0  - nothing earlier works and I do not guarantee that anything
                later works either (but chances are good, if SSLeay API
                stabilizes at this version). If the newest version does
                not work, downgrade to 0.9.0 before asking questions.
                I have assumed that SSLeay is installed in /usr/local/ssl,
                if this is not the case, you have to edit Makefile.PL

Installing
----------

1. Extract the archive in correct place in Perl tree (you probably
   already extracted the archieve since you are reading this file,
   sorry, you have to do it again)
	
	cd perl5.004/ext
	mkdir Net    # Unless you already have this directory
        cd Net
	gunzip <Net_SSLeay.pm-1.00.tar.gz | tar xvf -

2. Make the make file, make the module, test it, install it

	cd SSLeay
	perl Makefile.PL
	make
	make test

	# You can play with your new toy already here, but see perlxtut(1)
        # if your perl does not find the new module.

	make install    # This usually needs to be done as root

	# Now the module is visible to normal perl scripts

3. You're done, but if you like, you can build a HTML page:

	perl-source-root/pod/pod2html SSLeay.pm


Problems
--------

Are you sure you didn't confuse `Net::SSLeay' with `SSLeay'?

My development environments are
  
  i586, Linux-2.0.33, gcc-2.7.2.2, perl5.004_01
  Sparc Station 10, SunOS 4.1.3, gcc 2.7.2, perl5.003

Unfortunately I do not have access to other systems so you are
somewhat on your own. Everything compiles without a warning on my
systems.

Check that perl is finding your SSLeay.

If `make test' bombs, add following line to the test script that fails:

	$Net::SSLeay::trace = 2;

and see what happens. You may also have to edit test.pl to make sure
the debugging output gets printed.

If `make test' prints lots of `connect: Connection refused...' errors,
then sslecho.pl test server has died. It is supposed to be launched in
the beginning of test.pl, but can fail if, e.g. port 1212 is taken or
in TIMEWAIT state. Look also in ssleacho.log file for diagnostics.

If you get core dump, build your perl for debugging (add -g to
ccflags, see INSTALL in perl distribution), build your SSLeay for
debugging as well, uncomment the "OPTIMIZE => '-g'" line in
Makefile.PL and then say

	make clean
	perl Makefile.PL
	make static
	make test_static
	gdb perl core

Recommended reading
-------------------

If you run into build problems, especially regarding shared libraries,
check your perl documentation, especially the perlxtut(1) man page,
which gives excellent tutorial of the build process of XSUBs.

perlxtut(1)
perlxs(1)
perlguts(1)
perlcall(1)

--Sampo