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

I prepended my code with:

$ENV{'PERL_LWP_SSL_VERIFY_HOSTNAME'} = 0;

This caused the script to circumvent the check in a clean and simple way.