From: snacktime <snacktime@...>
Date: 2006-10-02T15:56:14+09:00
Subject: Re: open-uri and HTTPS, or net/https with a redirect

On 10/1/06, jotto <jonathan.otto@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there anything wrong with using this patch?
>
> http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-core/4365
>

Do you need it?  That only provides the ability to check the validity
of a server certificate.  You don't need that just to connect via ssl.

> How do you implement it?
>
> If not a good solution, can net/http be used with HTTPS sites and can
> redirection be built in?
>

Not sure what you mean by redirection.  Here is an example of an ssl POST.

require 'net/https'

https = Net::HTTP.new(host,port)
https.use_ssl = true
headers = { 'Referer' => '', 'Content-Type' =>
'application/x-www-form-urlencoded' }
response = https.post(path, request, headers)
p response.body