Why is Perl's IO::Socket::SSL->new() failing?

Question

When I execute this line:

$client = IO::Socket::SSL->new("pilot-payflopro.paypal.com:443");

my IO::Socket::SSL::errstr() is

configuration error
failederror:00000000:lib(0):func(0):reason(0)

my $! is 'invalid argument'

Has anyone run into this before?

Answer 1

It's a gethostbyname failure: the domain "pilot-payflopro.paypal.com" doesn't exist. You need a working hostname like payflow.verisign.com or what not. Read the documentation again.