open-uri is not redirecing http to https

ruby rubygems hpricot open-uri
leonidus picture leonidus · Apr 4, 2012 · Viewed 9.6k times · Source

I am using Hpricot and OpenURI to parse webpages and extract URLs from them.

When I get a link like "http:rapidshare.com", it is not redirecting to https. This is the error I got:

/home/leonidus/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p125/lib/ruby/1.9.1/open-uri.rb:216:in 
`open_loop': redirection forbidden: http:.................=>     
https:.........................
.
.

I tried to use the exception handler OPENURI::HTTPREDIRECT but then again I am getting the same error. I tried all the blogs but it is not resolved there also.

Answer

Ezekiel Templin picture Ezekiel Templin · Apr 4, 2012

See this Ruby bug report for a discussion of why you're experiencing this issue. See this gist for a monkey patch to OpenURI to allow "unsafe" redirects.

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