In article <cC0Hc.33918$eH1.16184273 / newssvr28.news.prodigy.com>,
  Randy Lawrence <jm / zzzzzzzzzzzz.com> writes:

> open-uri works great with http but when I use https (same url), it 
> raises an exception on the open() method.

open-uri doesn't support https yet.

I'll make the error message more descriptive.
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Tanaka Akira