Ruby on Rails Net::HTTP use_ssl throws 'undefined method'.

Question

Here's my code:

sock = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
sock.use_ssl = true
response = sock.start {|http| http.request(req)}

here's the error:

undefined method `use_ssl=' for #<Net::HTTP www.paypal.com:443 open=false>

google is getting me nothing!

thanks.

Answer 1

That is because the function is sock.use_ssl? and it returns a boolean, it is not a setter method.

It also appears to always return false. It is overridden in the Net::HTTPS package, which is probably what you should be using if you want to do any SSL stuff.

Here is the ruby doc

Answer 2

be sure to require 'net/https' too!