Tell Congress NO on SOPA and PIPA!

Tell both parties in Congress NO! This has to stop. We are constantly under assault. Sooner or later the only companies able to have a web site will be multi-billion dollar conglomerates and those related to the media, movies, music, or Government. This is insanity. With these type regulations, eBay and Amazon wouldn't exist, and other companies, such as mine, will be limited in our options online. It is a fact the Internet in its current form contributes hundreds of billions of dollars to the economy. Tell Congress THEY need to be worrying about things which create jobs instead of stifling voices, commerce, and freedom!

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lwp-request or GET and POST and self signed SSL certificates (HTTPS)

I was using the command line last night when I needed to hit one of my pages real quick. I didn't need the output all browser fancy, and I just needed a blurb of text, so I typed GET and the page address plus my credentials. I received an error from down in the bowels of Perl and the LWP::UserAgent library about my certificate not being verified.

I looked around the Internet, and I saw different posts, but nothing told me exactly what to do. Different peoples solutions were vastly different. So, I looked for the documentation for the LWP libraries, and I found them. There I found the exact solution. The library can be affected by environment variables. The specific one is PERL_LWP_SSL_VERIFY_HOSTNAME. It is a boolean value or 0/1 in Perl. So on the command line I simply ran:

export PERL_LWP_SSL_VERIFY_HOSTNAME=0

I then reran GET, and everything was good. So, if you run into this problem, then here is your fix. Simple and sweet.