From: ben moxon <glenatron@...>
Date: 2006-06-29T21:38:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Error with openssl in 1.8.4 on XP?

ben moxon wrote:
> I've been trying to consume a SOAP service using ruby, which should be 
> simple enough, but I need to work across Https and there seems to be no 
> way to do this currently.
> 
> The only message I get is OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError and then a stack trace 
> that leads back into http.rb line 588, which is where it asks the socket 
> to connect. There is no informative error message and the problem 
> appears to be in the binary rather than in the ruby source.
> 
> In the last few days of beating my head against the wall over this one 
> I've found various discussions that suggest there is a problem with 
> openSSL on the Windows version of 1.8.4 - I have only managed to get 
> anything working when I tried it on my Debian Box, running 1.8.2 - I 
> don't know if it's the version or the Debian but I can make https 
> requests successfully from there. Solutions I've seen suggested have 
> included rolling back to 1.8.2 and erasing old versions of the libraries 
> in the /site_ruby/ directory. The latter doesn't work, the former I'd 
> prefer to avoid if possible.
> 
> I was wondering if anyone has come up with an authoritative solution to 
> this, or a handy quick-fix? If not, where should I be going to file a 
> bug report?

I've filed a bug report, here is a convenient sample that shows the 
problem:

require 'http-access2'

def check_uri_request(uriText)
  clnt=HTTPAccess2::Client.new
  clnt.ssl_config.verify_mode=OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE
  puts clnt.get_content(uriText)
end

check_uri_request('https://adwords.google.co.uk/select/steps.html')

I'm using http-access2 because the net/http and open-uri stuff kept 
dying before it even got to ssl.

Definitely a problem with 1.8.4 on Windows XP - 1.8.2 works fine and 
even open-uri fails nicely pointing out that it doesn't support https. I 
havent tried it with 1.8.4 on any other platforms yet.

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