Ruby throws Timeout::Error when calling Net::HTTP.get on an HTTPS URL

I've tried this on a few machines on different networks, all running ruby 1.8.7 and I get the same result after a long 开发者_StackOverflow中文版wait.

Net::HTTP.get(URI.parse('https://encrypted.google.com/'))
  Timeout::Error: execution expired

but HTTP works fine

Net::HTTP.get(URI.parse('http://www.google.com/'))

After the inital timeout I get an EOFError instead

  EOFError: end of file reached

It's really got me stumped. If you have any ideas or you can let me know if you get the same results I'd really appreciate it.

I think you need to set use_ssl to true...

example:

uri = URI.parse("https://www.google.com/")
http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri.request_uri)

response = http.request(request)

puts response.body

This is cannibalized from the following Ruby Inside post.