# Implementing HTTPS with WEBrick? **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [May 30, 2006, 6:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/implementing-https-with-webrick/62003 "2006-05-30T18:12:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![weyus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/7ab992/32.png) [@weyus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/weyus)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2006, 6:12pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/implementing-https-with-webrick/62003/1 "2006-05-30T18:12:40Z")
All, I would like to test some secure pages that I’m developing in my WEBrick-based development environment. I’ve done some research and it appears that I need to create a new command that will start a HTTPS based WEBrick server. Is this correct? Also, it appears that the https.rb module is not included with the WEBrick bundled in Rails. So, I will need to go get that piece, right? Lastly, do I need to set up a cert. of my own on the server side to test with? Thanks, Wes ---
**Author:** ![weyus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/7ab992/32.png) [@weyus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/weyus)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2006, 6:54pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/implementing-https-with-webrick/62003/2 "2006-05-30T18:54:54Z")
Wes G. wrote: > All, > > I would like to test some secure pages that I’m developing in my > WEBrick-based development environment. > > I’ve done some research and it appears that I need to create a new > command that will start a HTTPS based WEBrick server. Is this correct? > > Also, it appears that the https.rb module is not included with the > WEBrick bundled in Rails. So, I will need to go get that piece, right? > > Lastly, do I need to set up a cert. of my own on the server side to test > with? > > Thanks, > Wes I found this: [http://lists.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/2006-January/012432.html](http://lists.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/2006-January/012432.html) and it appears to successfully start up a SSL Webrick for me. I also found where all of the WEBrick stuff was stored in the standard library for 1.8.4. But I’d like to understand more about how that script works. 1. What does OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY\_NONE do? 2. I assume that the ::SSLCertName tells WEBrick to cause a SSL cert. to be generated? Is that correct? Thanks, Wes ---
**Author:** ![weyus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/7ab992/32.png) [@weyus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/weyus)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2006, 7:16pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/implementing-https-with-webrick/62003/3 "2006-05-30T19:16:57Z")
Wes G. wrote: > Wes G. wrote: > > > All, > > > > I would like to test some secure pages that I’m developing in my > > WEBrick-based development environment. > > > > I’ve done some research and it appears that I need to create a new > > command that will start a HTTPS based WEBrick server. Is this correct? > > > > Also, it appears that the https.rb module is not included with the > > WEBrick bundled in Rails. So, I will need to go get that piece, right? > > > > Lastly, do I need to set up a cert. of my own on the server side to test > > with? > > > > Thanks, > > Wes > > I found this: > > [http://lists.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/2006-January/012432.html](http://lists.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/2006-January/012432.html) > > and it appears to successfully start up a SSL Webrick for me. > > I also found where all of the WEBrick stuff was stored in the standard > library for 1.8.4. > > But I’d like to understand more about how that script works. > > 1. What does OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY\_NONE do? > 2. I assume that the ::SSLCertName tells WEBrick to cause a SSL cert. to > be generated? Is that correct? > > Thanks, > Wes I am successfully running my SSL server, however, I am unable to use redirect\_to to do my redirects to a different port? How does one use url\_for to generate a URL for a specific port? Thanks, Wes ---
**Author:** ![weyus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/7ab992/32.png) [@weyus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/weyus)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2006, 7:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/implementing-https-with-webrick/62003/4 "2006-05-30T19:27:42Z")
Craig W. wrote: > On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 19:16 +0200, Wes G. wrote: > > > > > Also, it appears that the https.rb module is not included with the > > > > [http://lists.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/2006-January/012432.html](http://lists.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/2006-January/012432.html) > > > > be generated? Is that correct? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Wes > > > > I am successfully running my SSL server, however, I am unable to use > > redirect\_to to do my redirects to a different port? How does one use > > url\_for to generate a URL for a specific port? > > * * * > > generally, you would use url:port# > i.e. > [https://www.domain.com:81](https://www.domain.com:81) > > Craig I’d like to do something like this: redirect\_to :protocol =\> ‘https://’, :action =\> ‘login\_form’ but be able to specify the port. I tried using :host =\> request.host + ‘:3001’ but it didn’t work. Do I specify additional params to url\_for or do I just set up a route to always build an https URL with a port of 3001? Wes ---
**Author:** ![weyus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/7ab992/32.png) [@weyus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/weyus)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2006, 7:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/implementing-https-with-webrick/62003/5 "2006-05-30T19:24:15Z")
On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 19:16 +0200, Wes G. wrote: > > > Also, it appears that the https.rb module is not included with the > > > [http://lists.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/2006-January/012432.html](http://lists.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/2006-January/012432.html) > > > be generated? Is that correct? > > > > Thanks, > > Wes > > I am successfully running my SSL server, however, I am unable to use > redirect\_to to do my redirects to a different port? How does one use > url\_for to generate a URL for a specific port? * * * generally, you would use url:port# i.e. [https://www.domain.com:81](https://www.domain.com:81) Craig ---
**Author:** ![weyus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/7ab992/32.png) [@weyus](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/weyus)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2006, 7:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/implementing-https-with-webrick/62003/6 "2006-05-30T19:34:05Z")
Wes G. wrote: > Craig W. wrote: > > > On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 19:16 +0200, Wes G. wrote: > > > > > > > Also, it appears that the https.rb module is not included with the > > > > > [http://lists.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/2006-January/012432.html](http://lists.rubyonrails.org/pipermail/rails/2006-January/012432.html) > > > > > be generated? Is that correct? > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > Wes > > > > > > I am successfully running my SSL server, however, I am unable to use > > > redirect\_to to do my redirects to a different port? How does one use > > > url\_for to generate a URL for a specific port? > > > > * * * > > > > generally, you would use url:port# > > i.e. > > [https://www.domain.com:81](https://www.domain.com:81) > > > > Craig > > I’d like to do something like this: > > redirect\_to :protocol =\> ‘https://’, :action =\> ‘login\_form’ > > but be able to specify the port. > > I tried using :host =\> request.host + ‘:3001’ but it didn’t work. > > Do I specify additional params to url\_for or do I just set up a route to > always build an https URL with a port of 3001? > > Wes A cursory reading of the URL rewriting code shows that if you want to override the port, then you must do it as part of the host, using something like url\_for :host =\> request.host + ‘:####’ where #### is the name of the new port. Wes