# Errno::ENXIO (Device not configured) when using net/https fr

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/errno-enxio-device-not-configured-when-using-net-https-fr/101137>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [August 3, 2006, 1:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/errno-enxio-device-not-configured-when-using-net-https-fr/101137 "2006-08-03T13:13:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![snacktime](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/7feea3/32.png) [@snacktime](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/snacktime)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 1:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/errno-enxio-device-not-configured-when-using-net-https-fr/101137/1 "2006-08-03T13:13:51Z")

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I have the following code that creates a https connection from within  
a rails controller. Works fine except that if it doesn’t get called  
for a few hours it starts throwing an exception until I restart rails  
(apache1.3 + scgi). I wonder if something here isn’t thread safe?  
Just a guess.

@postdata = nil  
headers = { ‘Referer’ =\> ‘’, ‘Content-Type’ =\>  
‘application/x-www-form-urlencoded’ }  
@postdata = “directauth=1&user=#{user}&pass=#{@password}”  
site = Net::HTTP.new( ‘[mysite.com](http://mysite.com)’, 443 )  
site.use\_ssl = true  
response = site.post(‘/login’, @postdata, headers)

And this is the backtrace:

Errno::ENXIO (Device not configured):  
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:566:in `write' /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:566:in `connect’  
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:555:in `do_start' /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:544:in `start’  
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:1031:in `request' /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:840:in `post’  
/app/controllers/application.rb:69:in `authorize' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.3/lib/action_controller/filters.rb:399:in `call\_filters’  
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.3/lib/action\_controller/filters.rb:394:in  
`call_filters' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.3/lib/action_controller/filters.rb:383:in `before\_action’  
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.3/lib/action\_controller/filters.rb:365:in  
`perform_action_without_benchmark' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.3/lib/action_controller/benchmarking.rb:69:in `perform\_action\_without\_rescue’  
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/benchmark.rb:293:in `measure' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.3/lib/action_controller/benchmarking.rb:69:in `perform\_action\_without\_rescue’  
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.3/lib/action\_controller/rescue.rb:82:in  
`perform_action' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.3/lib/action_controller/base.rb:381:in `process\_without\_filters’  
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.3/lib/action\_controller/filters.rb:377:in  
`process_without_session_management_support' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.12.3/lib/action_controller/session_management.rb:117:in `process’  
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/rails-1.1.4/lib/dispatcher.rb:38:in  
`dispatch' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/scgi_rails-0.4.3/bin/scgi_service:23:in `process\_request’  
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/thread.rb:135:in `synchronize' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/scgi_rails-0.4.3/bin/scgi_service:21:in `process\_request’  
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/scgi\_rails-0.4.3/lib/scgi.rb:291:in  
`read_header' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/scgi_rails-0.4.3/lib/scgi.rb:253:in `handle\_client’  
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/scgi\_rails-0.4.3/lib/scgi.rb:234:in  
`handle_client' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/scgi_rails-0.4.3/lib/scgi.rb:188:in `listen’  
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/scgi\_rails-0.4.3/lib/scgi.rb:186:in  
`listen' /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/scgi_rails-0.4.3/lib/scgi.rb:412:in `run’  
/usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/scgi\_rails-0.4.3/bin/scgi\_service:61

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**Author:** ![snacktime](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/7feea3/32.png) [@snacktime](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/snacktime)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2006, 1:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/errno-enxio-device-not-configured-when-using-net-https-fr/101137/2 "2006-08-03T13:14:39Z")

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Also, this is on Freebsd 6.1, and line 68 of the authorize method is  
site.post being called.