Https html parsing

Hi,

Can anybody please give me the details of how to parse html from a
‘https’ site using ‘net/http’. I came to learn that we can use basic
authentication techniques to do that. But I want to know whether there
is a way other than basic authentication to parse html content from a
https site. I dont want to use any external libraries and i only want to
use ‘net/http’ and not any parsing libraries like ‘Hpricot’ etc… Can
anybody please help me. I will be really greatfull.

N. B.
/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:560:in initialize': getaddrinfo: Name or service not known (SocketError) from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:560:inopen’
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:560:in connect' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:53:intimeout’
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/timeout.rb:93:in timeout' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:560:inconnect’
from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:553:in do_start' from /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:542:instart’
from example.rb:5
This is the error which i get now when i use ‘net/http’.

Regards
Arun K.

Arun K. wrote:

/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:560:in `initialize’: getaddrinfo: Name or
service not known (SocketError)

from example.rb:5
This is the error which i get now when i use ‘net/http’.

This error isn’t useful unless you also post your example.rb

Note that in order to talk to a https server, you will need net/https
not net/http.

In some distributions (e.g. Ubuntu) you won’t have net/https.rb until
you install another package. For Ubuntu, apt-get install libopenssl-ruby

Brian C. wrote:

Arun K. wrote:

/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:560:in `initialize’: getaddrinfo: Name or
service not known (SocketError)

from example.rb:5
This is the error which i get now when i use ‘net/http’.

This error isn’t useful unless you also post your example.rb

Note that in order to talk to a https server, you will need net/https
not net/http.

In some distributions (e.g. Ubuntu) you won’t have net/https.rb until
you install another package. For Ubuntu, apt-get install libopenssl-ruby

Hi,
Thanks for ur reply.

require ‘net/https’
require ‘uri’

uri = “https://www.cia.gov
url = URI.parse(uri)
req = Net::HTTP::Get.new(‘/’, “User-Agent”=>“Mozilla/4.0 (compatible
MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)”)
https = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
https.use_ssl = true
res = https.start {|http|
http.request(req)
}
puts res.body

This is my entire code of example.rb. Now i used https. I’m now getting
a warning like this when i try to access https sites :

warning: peer certificate won’t be verified in this SSL session

and i’m not able to access sites where the url is redirecting.

Please help me

Regards
Arun K.

Eric H. wrote:

On Mar 27, 2009, at 21:13, Arun K. wrote:

require ‘net/https’
}
puts res.body

This is my entire code of example.rb. Now i used https. I’m now
getting
a warning like this when i try to access https sites :

warning: peer certificate won’t be verified in this SSL session

and i’m not able to access sites where the url is redirecting.

This is explained in ri Net::HTTP under “Following Redirection”

Hi,
I solved the redirecting problem. But still the https problem remains.
Please help me

Regards
Arun K.

Arun K. wrote:

I solved the redirecting problem. But still the https problem remains.

The error is just telling you that it doesn’t have any local CA root
certificates with which to verify the certificate presented by the peer.

If you want to enable certificate verification, and set the path to the
directory containing your CA root certificates, there is example code
here:

http://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/branches/ruby_1_8/sample/openssl/wget.rb?view=markup

There is more documentation at the top of net/https.rb, which will be
installed on your system somewhere, e.g. /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/https.rb

You may already have root CA certificates installed. On my Ubuntu Hardy
box they are in /etc/ssl/certs/

On Mar 27, 2009, at 21:13, Arun K. wrote:

require ‘net/https’
}
puts res.body

This is my entire code of example.rb. Now i used https. I’m now
getting
a warning like this when i try to access https sites :

warning: peer certificate won’t be verified in this SSL session

and i’m not able to access sites where the url is redirecting.

This is explained in ri Net::HTTP under “Following Redirection”