From: Mike Houghton <mike_k_houghton@...>
Date: 2007-02-02T20:30:35+09:00
Subject: WEBrick::HTTPServer and SSL

As a newbie this might be useful to other newbies...


I needed to run a WEBrick::HTTPServer using SSL.

First thing to do is visit
http://www.eclectica.ca/howto/ssl-cert-howto.php
Just follow the steps in the summary if you are in a hurry.

Once you have the files as described then the following code loads up
the cert and key and runs in SSL mode. It's only demo code but is a
reasonable starting point for running up a browser with an https://...
url.

Firefox 1.5.0.3 and IE 6.0 work fine against it - but for some reason
FireFox 2 has problems - but I'm sure it's just a Firefox config issue.

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#!/usr/local/bin/ruby


require 'webrick'
require 'webrick/https'
require 'openssl'


pkey = cert = cert_name = nil
begin
  pkey =
OpenSSL::PKey::RSA.new(File.open("/home/mhoughton/sslcert/key.pem").read)
  cert =
OpenSSL::X509::Certificate.new(File.open("/home/mhoughton/sslcert/cert.pem").read)
rescue
  $stderr.puts "Switching to use self-signed certificate"
  cert_name = [ ["C","JP"], ["O","WEBrick.Org"], ["CN", "WWW"] ]
end


s=WEBrick::HTTPServer.new(

  :Port             => 8080,
  :Logger           => WEBrick::Log::new($stderr, WEBrick::Log::DEBUG),
  :DocumentRoot     => "/usr/local/webrick/htdocs",
  :SSLEnable        => true,
  :SSLVerifyClient  => OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE,
  :SSLCertificate   => cert,
  :SSLPrivateKey    => pkey,
  :SSLCertName      => cert_name
)
s.start


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