OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError: certificate verify failed open-uri

I wrote a web-crawler today for one of my other projects, and ran into the above problem “OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError: certificate verify failed”, well I was just collecting websites and didn’t really care about the validity of SSL certificates, so I just wanted a quick fix.

Here it is:

require ‘openssl’
OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_PEER = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE

Essentially, I just change the constant for VERIFY PEER to the Value of VERIFY NONE, pretty sneaky :-) , and no real work required.

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3 Responses

  1. You are a life saver!

    tilsammans - August 25, 2008 at 12:54 pm

  2. Nice, this helped me too. I did get a warning about the already initialized constant, though, so I did this:

    module OpenSSL
    module SSL
    remove_const :VERIFY_PEER
    end
    end
    OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_PEER = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE

    trappist3 - October 22, 2008 at 5:07 pm

  3. This was very helpful in pointing me in the right direction. After some experimenting I’ve found this code to disable HTTPS verification without any warnings or overriding any constants.

    http = Net::HTTP.new(’secure.somehost.com’, 443)
    http.use_ssl = true
    http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE
    response = http.get(“/secured/page”)

    Thanks again, I never would have found this without reading your post!

    ah125i - March 24, 2009 at 11:53 pm

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