OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError: SSL_connect returned=1 errno=0 state=unknown state: unknown protocol

Question

I\'ve followed many posts regarding this issue and non of them helped. I\'m trying to connect using simplest irb commands:

require \'open-uri\'
open (\'https         


        

Answer 1

I found a good writeup of the problem & solution here. http://blog.55minutes.com/2012/05/tls-error-with-ruby-client-and-tomcat-server/

TLDR code snippet that resolves the problem.

http = Net::HTTP.new(host, port)
http.use_ssl = true
http.ssl_version = :SSLv3
http.start { ... }