Bug #5545: Net::HTTP breaks with https URI objects

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: drbrain (Eric Hodel)
• Target version: 2.0.0
• ruby -v: ruby 2.0.0dev (2011-10-25 trunk 33524) [i686-linux]

[ferlatte (Mark Ferlatte)]

uri = URI('https://example.com/index.html?count=10')
Net::HTTP.get(uri)

will currently fail with an obscure error due to Net::HTTP attempting to speak HTTP to an HTTPS service.

I believe this is a bug, and have patched lib/net/http.rb to use SSL when you use an https URI with the get and post_form helpers.

[ferlatte (Mark Ferlatte)]

• File http.rb.diff http.rb.diff added

[ferlatte (Mark Ferlatte)]

Sorry, apparently failed to attach the patch to the bug. Please let me know if there's anything I should change in order for this patch to be accepted.

[MartinBosslet (Martin Bosslet)]

• Status changed from Open to Assigned
• Assignee set to drbrain (Eric Hodel)
• Target version set to 2.0.0

Thanks, Mark, for reporting this and providing the patch.

As far as I know, Eric is working on a fix for this problem, too?

[ferlatte (Mark Ferlatte)]

That would be awesome. I saw bugs from Eric about SSL session re-use in Net::HTTP, but didn't see anything about this particular issue.

[naruse (Yui NARUSE)]

• Status changed from Assigned to Closed
• % Done changed from 0 to 100

This issue was solved with changeset r33849.
Mark, thank you for reporting this issue.
Your contribution to Ruby is greatly appreciated.
May Ruby be with you.

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• lib/net/http.rb (Net::HTTP.get_response): enable use_ssl
  if given URI object is https.
  patched by Mark Ferlatte [ruby-core:40665] [Bug #5545]

• lib/net/http.rb (Net::HTTP.post_form): ditto.