From: "NAKAMURA, Hiroshi" <nakahiro@...>
Date: 2005-02-01T16:37:53+09:00
Subject: Re: http_access2 and SSL

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Hi,

Ed O'Loughlin wrote:
> I'm somewhat new to Ruby. I'm trying to force myself to use Ruby rather 
> than perl to write a simple script to get a form from a url and post 
> data using http_access2. It seems simple enough except that the site 
> uses https and has a self-signed cert.
> 
> My code is quite simple:
> 
>    client = HTTPAccess2::Client.new(proxy)
>    # etc...
>    content = client.get_content(login_url)
> 
> I get the error in OpenSSL (see below). I had a look at the http_access2 
> code and it seems to provide for configuring OpenSSL (I want to tell it 
> not to verify certs) but it's not exposed in the constructor. I'm not 
> familiar enough with Ruby to decode some of the syntax, so I'm not sure 
> if there is a way of passing options to ssl.

You can tell a client not to verify the server with;

  client.ssl_config.verify_mode = nil

Bear in mind that it's just an insecure and awkwardly slow connection. 
:-)  I recommend to set trusted CA certificate with;

  client.cfg.set_trust_ca('ca_cert.pem')

FYI: here is a project site of http-access2: 
http://rrr.jin.gr.jp/projects/http-access2

Regards,
// NaHi

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