From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2009-03-28T13:34:24+09:00
Subject: Re: https html parsing

On Mar 27, 2009, at 21:13, Arun Kumar wrote:
> Brian Candler wrote:
>> Arun Kumar wrote:
>>> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:560:in `initialize': getaddrinfo:  
>>> Name or
>>> service not known (SocketError)
>> ...
>>>  from example.rb:5
>>> This is the error which i get now when i use 'net/http'.
>>
>> This error isn't useful unless you also post your example.rb
>>
>> Note that in order to talk to a https server, you will need net/https
>> not net/http.
>>
>> In some distributions (e.g. Ubuntu) you won't have net/https.rb until
>> you install another package. For Ubuntu, apt-get install libopenssl- 
>> ruby
>
> Hi,
> Thanks for ur reply.
>
> require 'net/https'
> require 'uri'
>
> uri = "https://www.cia.gov"
> url = URI.parse(uri)
> req = Net::HTTP::Get.new('/', "User-Agent"=>"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible
> MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)")
> https = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
> https.use_ssl = true
> res = https.start {|http|
>      http.request(req)
>      }
> puts res.body
>
> This is my entire code of example.rb. Now i used https. I'm now  
> getting
> a warning like this when i try to access https sites :
>
> warning: peer certificate won't be verified in this SSL session
>
> and i'm not able to access sites where the url is redirecting.

This is explained in `ri Net::HTTP` under "Following Redirection"