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Jonathan
Jonathan

Reputation: 11

How can I use a different version of openssl with perl?

I am writing Perl script on linux box that uses SOAP:Lite and LWP::Protocol::https. Those modulea use openssl to negotiate SSL connections.

I needed to a resent version openssl to get TLS 1.2, but sysadmin doesn't want to upgrade current one and give me a local version of openssl.

How can perl point to that local version. Will I have to rebuild all Perl modules?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 4042

Answers (1)

Steffen Ullrich
Steffen Ullrich

Reputation: 123639

You'll need to rebuild the Net::SSLeay module which provides the OpenSSL binding for IO::Socket::SSL which itself is the library used by LWP (and thus SOAP::Lite) for SSL since LWP version 6.

To rebuild Net::SSLeay with a specific version of OpenSSL you need to have a C-compiler and the specific SSL library and their header files installed in a directory which you can specify with OPENSSL_PREFIX. See the Net::SSLeay README for detailed build instructions.

Upvotes: 2

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