If you as us in my company use self signed certificate and ran into an OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError when using httpclient gem.
Here is how to bypass ssl certificate verification :
The issue :
require 'rubygems' require 'httpclient' client = HTTPClient.new url = "https://www.server1.com" client.get(url) at depth 1 - 19: self signed certificate in certificate chain OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError: SSL_connect returned=1 errno=0 state=SSLv3 read server certificate B: certificate verify failed from /home/hery/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/httpclient-2.1.5.2/lib/httpclient/session.rb:247:in `connect' from /home/hery/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/httpclient-2.1.5.2/lib/httpclient/session.rb:247:in `ssl_connect' from /home/hery/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/httpclient-2.1.5.2/lib/httpclient/session.rb:639:in `connect' from /home/hery/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/httpclient-2.1.5.2/lib/httpclient/timeout.rb:128:in `timeout' from /home/hery/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/httpclient-2.1.5.2/lib/httpclient/session.rb:631:in `connect' from /home/hery/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/httpclient-2.1.5.2/lib/httpclient/session.rb:522:in `query' from /home/hery/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/httpclient-2.1.5.2/lib/httpclient/session.rb:147:in `query' from /home/hery/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/httpclient-2.1.5.2/lib/httpclient.rb:953:in `do_get_block' from /home/hery/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/httpclient-2.1.5.2/lib/httpclient.rb:765:in `do_request' from /home/hery/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/httpclient-2.1.5.2/lib/httpclient.rb:848:in `protect_keep_alive_disconnected' from /home/hery/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/httpclient-2.1.5.2/lib/httpclient.rb:764:in `do_request' from /home/hery/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/httpclient-2.1.5.2/lib/httpclient.rb:666:in `request' from /home/hery/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/httpclient-2.1.5.2/lib/httpclient.rb:591:in `get' from (irb):5
Solution :
client.ssl_config.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE client.get(url)
