WWW::Mechanize::PhantomJS cannot get HTTPS page

Question

I write a Perl script using WWW::Mechanize::PhantomJS to get the content of the page https://www.landata.vic.gov.au/ but the content is empty.

It seems there is something wrong with SSL Certificate, could anyone help me fix this problem?

Here is the code I extracted from my program:

use strict;
use warnings;

use CGI qw(:cgi-lib :standard);
use WWW::Mechanize::PhantomJS;
use Utility;
use JSON;
#use DBI;
use DateTime;
use DateTime::TimeZone;

#Create PhantomJs object

my $website = WWW::Mechanize::PhantomJS -> new(
    launch_arg => ['ghostdriver/src/main.js']
);

#Launch the website
$website -> get(https://www.landata.vic.gov.au/);

#Get content of the page

print $website->content( format => 'html' );

`use CGI qw(:cgi-lib :standard);` ... hmmmm ... very puzzling. Why exactly do you need this? — Sinan Ünür, Aug 25 '15 at 12:17

Steffen Ullrich · Answer 1 · 2015-08-25T12:58:39.243

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PhantomJs by default tries SSL 3.0 and your target site does not support SSL 3.0. Try to override this default behavior by adding --ssl-protocol=any with phantomjs_arg:

my $website = WWW::Mechanize::PhantomJS -> new(
    phantomjs_arg => [ '--ssl-protocol=any' ],
    launch_arg => ['ghostdriver/src/main.js']
);

edited Aug 25 '15 at 12:58

answered Aug 25 '15 at 12:30

Steffen Ullrich

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General reference: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12021578/phantomjs-failing-to-open-https-site – Artjom B. Aug 25 '15 at 12:55
@ArtjomB.: I thought it would be obvious from the documentation but I've now added it to the response. – Steffen Ullrich Aug 25 '15 at 12:58
@SinanÜnür: I think this is a typo in the sample code but not in the real code since it would not even pass the syntax check without the missing quotes. – Steffen Ullrich Aug 25 '15 at 14:44

WWW::Mechanize::PhantomJS cannot get HTTPS page

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