Why does accessing a SSL site with Mechanize on Windows fail, but on Mac work?

Question

This is the code I\'m using to connect to the SSL site.

require \'mechanize\'
a = Mechanize.new
page = a.get \'https://site.com\'

I\"m usin

Answer 1

Luis' answer looks fine but more generally:

OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_PEER = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE