redirecting to non-https resource error with HTTPClient in Ruby

Question

When I use content = client.get_content(lasturl) I'm getting this error:

/var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/httpclient-2.3.4.1/lib/httpclient.rb:664:in `default_redirect_uri_callback': redirecting to non-https resource (HTTPClient::BadResponseError)
    from /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/httpclient-2.3.4.1/lib/httpclient.rb:962:in `call'
    from /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/httpclient-2.3.4.1/lib/httpclient.rb:962:in `follow_redirect'
    from /var/lib/gems/1.9.1/gems/httpclient-2.3.4.1/lib/httpclient.rb:594:in `get_content'
    from he_sender.rb:332:in `<main>'

URL I want to get is https and I already disabled SSL check:

client.ssl_config.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE

How I can solve such problem? Thanks.

Answer 1

Redirecting from https to http is bad, and HTTPClient protects you against that.

If you really want to allow for that, and eliminate the exception, you can override redirect_uri_callback:

client.redirect_uri_callback = ->(uri, res) {
  res.header['location'][0]
}