From: Landon Cox <lcox@...>
Date: 2008-02-20T09:16:35+09:00
Subject: Using Net::HTTP to proxy HTTPS


As far as I can tell from my experimenting, there is no way to proxy
HTTPS requests using the Net::HTTP classes.  My question is: can it be
done?  And if so, how?

I've tried numerous variations, but the main gist of what I've tried is
this code fragment:

 httpobj = Net::HTTP.new( host, port )

 # this Proxy version below doesn't work to post to an HTTPS url through
a proxy even though
 # it's supposed to have
 # the same methods as Net::HTTP, errors with a use_ssl is not a method
 # httpobj = Net::HTTP.Proxy( @proxy_host, @proxy_port, @proxy_user,
@proxy_password )

 httpobj.use_ssl = true

 httpobj.start do | http |

    request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(path)
    request.set_form_data({ "scan[scan_results]" => "#{results}" } )
    response = http.request(request)

 end

Proxying normal HTTP requests works fine.  Using HTTPS with no proxying
works fine, but
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