Odd problem with SSL under OSX

[Simon Wistow]

If I try and install LWP::Protocol::https under OSX (10.6.8) I get a 
failure in its test saying

"Can't connect to www.apache.org:443 (No route to host)"

This is not an Apache only problem - I've tried changing the host.

Installing it on Linux (including a VMWare Ubuntu instance on my 
laptop) and FreeBSD works fine.

So what could be up with it on the host OSX? Curl works fine. Nobody 
else seems to have reported the bug. I'm somewhat stumped.

Any ideas?