Ruby: SSL_connect SYSCALL returned=5 errno=0 state=unknown state (OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError)

Question

Variants of this error have been posted all over the place but none of the solutions seem to work for me.

I\'m running ruby 2.2.2p95 (2015-04-13 revision 50295

Answer 1

I use Mechanize, and I was looking for a patch instead of a configuration of the http client instance. This is how I managed to do it:

OpenSSL::SSL::SSLContext::DEFAULT_PARAMS[:ciphers] += ':DES-CBC3-SHA'