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Tony Stark
Tony Stark

Reputation: 25538

Using Net::HTTP.get for an https url

I'm trying to use Net::HTTP.get() for an https URL:

@data = Net::HTTP.get(uri, Net::HTTP.https_default_port())

However, I get the following result when I try to print the results:

can't convert URI::HTTPS into String

What's the deal? I'm using Ruby 1.8.7 (OS X)

Upvotes: 93

Views: 94447

Answers (4)

stef
stef

Reputation: 14268

Original answer:

uri = URI.parse("https://example.com/some/path")
http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
http.use_ssl = true
@data = http.get(uri.request_uri)

As pointed out in the comments, this is more elegant:

require "open-uri"
@data = URI.parse("https://example.com/some/path").read

Upvotes: 167

eebbesen
eebbesen

Reputation: 5148

EDIT: My approach works, but @jason-yeo's approach is far easier.

It appears as of 2.1.2 the preferred a documented method is as follows (directly quoting the documentation):

HTTPS is enabled for an HTTP connection by #use_ssl=.

uri = URI('https://secure.example.com/some_path?query=string')

Net::HTTP.start(uri.host, uri.port,   
  :use_ssl => uri.scheme == 'https') do |http|
  request = Net::HTTP::Get.new uri

  response = http.request request # Net::HTTPResponse object 
end

In previous versions of Ruby you would need to require ‘net/https’ to use HTTPS. This is no longer true.

Upvotes: 39

Jason Yeo
Jason Yeo

Reputation: 3702

In Ruby 2.0.0 and above, simply passing in an uri object with a https url is sufficient to do a HTTPS get request.

uri = URI('https://encrypted.google.com')
Net::HTTP.get(uri)

You may verify this by performing a get request on a domain with an expired certificate.

uri = URI('https://expired.badssl.com/')
Net::HTTP.get(uri)
# OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError: SSL_connect returned=1 errno=0 state=error: certificate verify failed

It was introduced by this commit in Ruby 2.0.0.

The get_response method, which is called by the Net::HTTP.get method, sets :use_ssl to true when the uri.scheme is "https".

Disclaimer: I understand that the question is for Ruby 1.8.7, but since this is one of the top few search results when one searches for "https ruby", I've decided to answer anyway.

Upvotes: 28

Vlad Khomich
Vlad Khomich

Reputation: 5880

this should look as:

uri.port = Net::HTTP.https_default_port()
@data = Net::HTTP.get(uri)

Upvotes: 4

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