excon

Http(s) EXtended CONnections

Getting Started

sudo gem install excon

Now you are ready to get started using one off requests.

require 'rubygems'
require 'excon'
Excon.get('http://geemus.com')

The returned response object has #body, #headers and #status attributes. Supported one off requests are #connect, #delete, #get, #head, #options, #post, #put, and #trace

You can also create a connection to reuse across multiple requests (more performant!).

connection = Excon.new('http://geemus.com')
connection.request(:method => 'GET')

Both one off and persistent connections also support many other options, for example:

Excon.get('http://geemus.com', :headers => {'Authorization' => 'Basic 0123456789ABCDEF'})
# or
connection.request(:method => 'GET', :headers => {'Authorization' => 'Basic 0123456789ABCDEF'})

You can also stream responses by passing a block that will receive each chunk.

Excon.get('http://geemus.com') {|chunk| p chunk }

These options can be combined to make pretty much any request you might need.

HTTPS/SSL Issues

By default excon will try to verify peer certificates when using ssl for https, unfortunately on some operating systems the defaults will not work. This will likely manifest itself as something like “Excon::Errors::SocketError: SSL_connect returned=1 …”

If you have the misfortune of running into this problem you have a couple options. First, if you have certificates in a location that defaults fail to locate you can set a different path to certificates:

Excon.ssl_ca_path = '/path/to/certs'

or failing that, you can turn off peer verification (less secure):

Excon.ssl_verify_peer = false

Either of these should allow you to work around the socket error and continue with getting your work done.

(The MIT License)

Copyright © 2010 geemus (Wesley Beary)

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