Ruby XMLRPC OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError

Ruby
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Hi,

I am trying to connect an api using xmlrpc in ruby. When I run the
following code:

ret = XMLRPC::Client.new2(“https://api2.top-hat.info/API/”)

It gives me the following error:

/Users/rahmanm/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:799:in
`connect’: SSL_connect returned=1 errno=0 state=SSLv3 read server
certificate B: certificate verify failed (OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError)

On the other hand, the same call works for python. In python when I run
the equivalent call:

srv = xmlrpclib.Server(“https://api2.top-hat.info/API/”, allow_none =
1)

I can access the api.

Could you please tell me how to solve this ssl error in ruby.

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On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 7:00 AM, Mohammed Yasin Rahman
[email protected] wrote:

    ret = XMLRPC::Client.new2("https://api2.top-hat.info/API/")

It gives me the following error:

/Users/rahmanm/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p194/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:799:in
`connect’: SSL_connect returned=1 errno=0 state=SSLv3 read server certificate B:
certificate verify failed (OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError)

It’s not an “error”; try the above URL in a browser, and you’ll see that
the cert is self-signed…

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On Nov 23, 2012, at 4:08 PM, Hassan S.
[email protected] wrote:

It’s not an “error”; try the above URL in a browser, and you’ll see that
the cert is self-signed

How to solve it? And why it works with python?

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On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 7:26 AM, Mohammed Yasin Rahman
[email protected] wrote:

It’s not an “error”; try the above URL in a browser, and you’ll see that
the cert is self-signed

Though having said that, I tried your XMLRPC example here using
ruby-1.9.3-p286 and OpenSSL 0.9.8r 8 Feb 2011 and it worked fine
(i.e. no such error message).

Not sure what to think about that :slight_smile:

What is the environment that’s giving you this message?

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On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 7:50 AM, Mohammed Yasin Rahman
[email protected] wrote:

I am using ruby 1.9.3p194 (2012-04-20 revision 35410) [x86_64-darwin12.2.0]
and OpenSSL 0.9.8r 8 Feb 2011 in OS X

You might try with the latest Ruby, then, because we’re on the same
version of openssl… Other than that, I don’t know why I wouldn’t see
the same result here.

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When I use it in irb it gives me the following message:

1.9.3-p194 :003 > ret =
XMLRPC::Client.new2(“https://api2.top-hat.info/API/”)
=> #<XMLRPC::Client:0x007f8cac0859b8 @http_header_extra=nil,
@http_last_response=nil, @cookie=nil, @host=“api2.top-hat.info”,
@path=“/API/”, @proxy_host=nil, @proxy_port=nil, @use_ssl=true,
@timeout=30, @port=443, @password=nil, @user=nil, @auth=nil,
@http=#<Net::HTTP api2.top-hat.info:443 open=false>, @parser=nil,
@create=nil>

Is it error or it means that the xmlrpc is working?

Thanks for your help.

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On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 8:01 AM, Mohammed Yasin Rahman
[email protected] wrote:

When I use it in irb it gives me the following message:

That’s what I see, as well, and I assume that constitutes “working”.

What changed between when you got the error and this result?

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I am using ruby 1.9.3p194 (2012-04-20 revision 35410)
[x86_64-darwin12.2.0] and OpenSSL 0.9.8r 8 Feb 2011 in OS X
If you want I can send you my entire script