Perl: Cannot Access Web Service with SSL

Question

This is my first Perl script. I have installed SOAP::Lite using CPAN and it seems to have gone okay.

I\'m trying to access a simple HelloWorld .NET web service. I\'m get

Answer 1

You need to tell LWP to not do hostname checking. For me this only worked using an environment variable, not by setting an option in SOAP::Lite objects:

$ENV{PERL_LWP_SSL_VERIFY_HOSTNAME}=0;