https - How to ignore 'Certificate Verify Failed' error in perl?

Question

I want to access a website where the certificate cannot be verified. I'm using WWW::Mechanize get request. So how would go about ignoring this and continues to connect to the website?

Answer 1

use IO::Socket::SSL qw();
use WWW::Mechanize qw();
my $mech = WWW::Mechanize->new(ssl_opts => {
    SSL_verify_mode => IO::Socket::SSL::SSL_VERIFY_NONE,
    verify_hostname => 0, # this key is likely going to be removed in future LWP >6.04
});

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With IO::Socket::SSL earlier than 1.79, see PERL_LWP_SSL_VERIFY_HOSTNAME.