LWP::UserAgent and 500 SSL negotiation failed

Question

I\'m running an old Debian server that once a day fetches a webpage through a Perl script. Since yesterday, the script fails with a \"500 SSL negotiation failed\" error.

Answer 1

I got it to work for Perl. As I suspected, each program on the server that uses SSL needs to be patched seperately. But this was the solution for Perl:

1) Update OpenSSL (to version 1.0.2d)

This is a necessary step for every program that uses SSL! On my Debian system, I used the instructions found here.

2) Update Net::SSLeay

This was necessary otherwise step 4) would fail.

$ cpan Net::SSLeay

3) Update Getopt::Long

Again, this step was necessary otherwise step 4) would fail.

$ cpan Getopt::Long

4) Update Crypt::SSLeay

Note that this will also update LWP.

$ cpan Crypt::SSLeay