From: jakattack2@...
Date: 2006-10-20T20:15:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Having trouble connecting to a site via net/http

I tried the code that you suggest and I get the following error
messages. The error seems to be thrown on this line

response = http.get('/')

    Janak

# Error messages
c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:565:in `connect': undefined method
`verify_mode' for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)
        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:555:in `do_start'
        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:544:in `start'
        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:1031:in `request'
        from c:/ruby/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:771:in `get'
        from adtest.rb:32



Chris Roos wrote:
> On 10/20/06, jakattack2@gmail.com <jakattack2@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> >    In my app I have the need to screen scrape a HTTPS page and I'm
> > getting a strange error that I don't understand. I can reproduce the
> > error with a secure google page, which I do in the test code below.
> > Any help would be much appreciated.
> >
> >    Janak
> >
> > #My Ruby version
> > ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i386-mswin32]
> >
> > # My test code
> > require 'net/http.rb'
> > require 'uri'
> >
> > response =
> > Net::HTTP.get_response(URI.parse('https://www.google.com/adsense/'))
> >
> Use net/https to connect over ssl...
>
> require 'net/https'
> require 'uri'
>
> uri = URI.parse('https://adwords.google.com')
>
> http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
> http.use_ssl = true
> # http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE # Not setting this
> explicitly will result in an error and the value being set anyway
> response = http.get('/')
> p response