From: Robert Date: 2005-10-19T07:58:50+09:00 Subject: Re: rescue'ing OpenSSL errors Hello Edward, thanks about pointing that out. Another thing learned :) However, it does not work. It still throws that same error (and also quits irb). Anyway, for me that's not a problem anymore, because I just added: raise ArgumentError if password.empty? to my script. But I'm still curious why a "rescue Exception" doesn't work here -- if anyone knows, that'd be cool :) roob