This message almost duplicates a number of other messages, including Rails 4 and Ruby 2 Net / HTTP SSL Request: OpenSSL :: SSL :: SSLError: SSL_connect returns = 1 errno = 0 state = SSLv2 / v3 read server hi A: unknown protocol and SSL_connect returned = 1 errno = 0 state = SSLv3 read server certificate B: certificate verification failed , but with one key difference: the error "certificate verification failed" occurs only when proxying via SSL proxy ( Charles ) and only in the latest Ruby version.
In particular, this (non-proxied) code works:
uri = URI.parse('https://www.ibm.com')
http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port, nil)
http.use_ssl = true
http.start { |agent| agent.get(uri.path) }
and this (proxied) code fails with the error "Certificate Verification Error":
uri = URI.parse('https://www.ibm.com')
http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port, "localhost", 8888)
http.use_ssl = true
http.start { |agent| agent.get(uri.path) }
puzzle
The error appears ONLY when passing through a proxy in current versions of Ruby / OpenSSL. In particular:
- There is no error in the absence of a proxy server, which makes me think that the local certificates are valid.
- When passing through a proxy server with Firefox or
curl -v https://www.ibm.com/there are no errors, which makes me think that Charles certificates are valid. - There is no proxy server error in an earlier version of Ruby / OpenSSL (see below for two environments).
All this makes me suspect a real Ruby error, not a problem with my certificates, but I would be happy if it were shown differently.
current environment
I am observing an error in this environment:
$ system_profiler SPSoftwareDataType | grep "System Version"
System Version: OS X 10.8.5 (12F45)
$ ruby --version ; openssl version ; gem list | grep http
ruby 2.0.0p247 (2013-06-27) [x86_64-darwin12.4.0]
OpenSSL 1.0.1e 11 Feb 2013
http-cookie (1.0.2)
http_router (0.10.2)
net-http-digest_auth (1.4)
net-http-persistent (2.9)
ntlm-http (0.1.1)
previous Wednesday
The error does not appear with a slightly outdated version of ruby ββ/ OpenSSL:
$ ruby --version ; openssl version ; gem list | grep http
ruby 2.0.0p0 (2013-02-24 revision 39474) [x86_64-darwin10.8.0]
OpenSSL 0.9.8y 5 Feb 2013
http_router (0.11.0, 0.10.2)
httpauth (0.2.0)
net-http-digest_auth (1.2.1)
net-http-persistent (2.8)
ntlm-http (0.1.1)