i am trying to connect to https://login.yahoo.com which redirects to
what is im assuming a load balanced server.


snacktime wrote:
> On 10/1/06, jotto <jonathan.otto / gmail.com> wrote:
> > Is there anything wrong with using this patch?
> >
> > http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-core/4365
> >
>
> Do you need it?  That only provides the ability to check the validity
> of a server certificate.  You don't need that just to connect via ssl.
>
> > How do you implement it?
> >
> > If not a good solution, can net/http be used with HTTPS sites and can
> > redirection be built in?
> >
>
> Not sure what you mean by redirection.  Here is an example of an ssl POST.
>
> require 'net/https'
>
> https = Net::HTTP.new(host,port)
> https.use_ssl = true
> headers = { 'Referer' => '', 'Content-Type' =>
> 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded' }
> response = https.post(path, request, headers)
> p response.body