LWP::Curl doesn't accept CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST
/CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER
parameters for it's constructor!
Use LWP::Protocol::Net::Curl instead:
use LWP::Protocol::Net::Curl ssl_verifyhost => 0, ssl_verifypeer => 0;
use LWP::UserAgent;
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
my $content = $ua->get($url);
Note that LWP::Protocol::Net::Curl alters the default LWP::UserAgent behavior, so you still use $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new
, while it uses libcurl
internally.