From: Jeremy Bopp <jeremy@...>
Date: 2012-03-28T06:51:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Weird Net:HTTP connection issues

On 03/27/2012 04:47 PM, James E. wrote:
> I'm having some new issues connecting to our credit card processors
> servers. I'm working under Linux (dev and production), and have tried
> Ruby 1.8.7, 1.9.2 and 1.9.3 under Linux.  This was working for the past
> year, and just recently became a problem.
> 
> The weird thing... on Mac OS X, with Ruby 1.8.7 it connects just fine!
> :(
> 
> On Linux, when I try to connect to esqa.moneris.com it will just timeout
> (or hang forever with Ruby's default Net::HTTP timeout).  Even something
> simple like this hangs on my Linux box:
> 
> RestClient.get('https://esqa.moneris.com')

You're using HTTPS there, so could there be some sort of certificate
issue?  Maybe your Linux environments no longer trust the CA cert used
to sign their certificate.  I'm not sure why that would cause an
apparent hang, but hopefully that helps.

-Jeremy