# Curious termination on connecting via SSL

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/curious-termination-on-connecting-via-ssl/108338>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [July 2, 2007, 1:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/curious-termination-on-connecting-via-ssl/108338 "2007-07-02T13:11:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![joep](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@joep](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/joep)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2007, 1:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/curious-termination-on-connecting-via-ssl/108338/1 "2007-07-02T13:11:06Z")

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Hi

Firstly, just wanted to say the documentation on here is great, its  
helped me out a lot. However, in my recent code, I’ve run into a bug  
which I can’t work out why it is happening. I’m attempting to submit a  
POST operation to a secure website. The relevant section is:

begin  
site = Net::HTTP.new(‘[securesite.co.uk](http://securesite.co.uk)’, 443)  
site.use\_ssl = true  
print ‘TEST ’  
site.start  
site.post(’/submissionurl’, @data.to\_s)  
site.finish  
print ‘a’  
rescue  
print ’ ERROR ’  
else  
print ’ Working ’  
ensure  
print ‘d’  
end  
print ‘a’  
end

I get the following output:

\*\*\* WARNING \*\*\* Windows users should check the “Run process in terminal”  
check box in the Debugger Preferences  
to see STDOUT and STDERR output in real time.  
TEST warning: peer certificate won’t be verified in this SSL session

> exit

The interesting thing for me is that it does not matter what I put after  
the site.start command, as long as it is syntactically valid, no errors  
are thrown(for example site.completegarbage gives the same output).  
Also, as far as I can tell, it should print out the ‘d’ at least,  
because it is in an ensure block.

I’m using Ruby version 1.8, installed on Windows XP with the one click  
installer. I have already included ‘net/https’ and ‘uri’.

Any help would be greatly appreciated…I don’t quite understand how it  
is behaving like that.

Regards

Joe