Scripts broke after upgrading LWP “certificate verify failed”

Question

I have a lot of scripts, most of them based around WWW::Mechanize that scrape data off of misc hardware that is accessible via HTTPs. After upgrading most of my

Answer 1

For me, using:

my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new(
  ssl_opts => { verify_hostname => 0 },
);

Yielded

Using the default of SSL_verify_mode of SSL_VERIFY_NONE for client is deprecated! Please set SSL_verify_mode to SSL_VERIFY_PEER together with SSL_ca_file|SSL_ca_path for verification. If you really don't want to verify the certificate and keep the connection open to Man-In-The-Middle attacks please set SSL_verify_mode explicitly to SSL_VERIFY_NONE in your application.

Using this did not give any warnings:

my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new(
  ssl_opts => { SSL_verify_mode => 'SSL_VERIFY_NONE'},
);