LWP::UserAgent and Passphrase protected Certificates

Sifmole has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi all, I am attempting to get LWP::UserAgent to properly handly a connection which requires a protected certificate. My current issue is that no matter which way I have tried to define the callback via any of the following:

set_default_passwd_cb 

CTX_set_default_passwd_cb 

$IO::Socket::SSL::SSL::GLOBAL_CONTEXT_ARGS{'SSL_passwd_cb'}

&IO::Socket::SSL::context_init('SSL_passwd_cb' => \&foo );
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The LWP::UserAgent either asks via the TTY for the passphrase or barges ahead not asking for one but not succeeding in making the connection. Anybody ever managed to use this feature?

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Re: LWP::UserAgent and Passphrase protected Certificates
by tphyahoo (Vicar) on Aug 25, 2005 at 18:21 UTC

Also, when you google around for solutions, you might want to search on mechanize as well as UserAgent, because a lot of LWPers use the fancier mechanize module.

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Re: LWP::UserAgent and Passphrase protected Certificates
by PodMaster (Abbot) on Aug 25, 2005 at 22:43 UTC

I suggest you first try what http://search.cpan.org/src/BEHROOZI/IO-Socket-SSL-0.97/docs/debugging.txt suggests, and if all goes well, then the problem must lie with LWP, so try turning LWP::Debug on to see what happens.

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Re: LWP::UserAgent and Passphrase protected Certificates
by hookbot (Acolyte) on Jun 06, 2020 at 13:51 UTC

On the new version of IO::Socket::SSL, it should work like this:

IO::Socket::SSL::set_defaults(passwd_cb => sub { "SecretPassPhrase" });

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