perl-Net-SSLeay -- Perl extension for using OpenSSL
http://search.cpan.org/dist/Net-SSLeay.pm/
This module offers some high level convinience functions for accessing web pages on SSL servers (for symmetry, same API is offered for accessing http servers, too), a sslcat() function for writing your own clients, and finally access to the SSL api of SSLeay/OpenSSL package so you can write servers or clients for more complicated applications.