How to Parse uri in ruby without Authentication

Question

My Code,

require 'net/http'
require 'json'

url = 'http://api.spotify.com/v1/search?type=artist&q=tycho'
uri = URI(url)
response = Net::HTTP.get(uri)
JSON.parse(response)
puts(response)

This works as long as it is http but the instance it is https it fails with Authentication error.

Actual Error: SSL_connect returned=1 errno=0 state=error: certificate verify failed (error number 1) (OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError)

In Curl I can use insecure mode which helps get the results as shown in the example below:

curl --insecure -X GET -H "content-type: application/json" -H "Accept: application/json" -d '{}' "http://api.spotify.com/v1/search?type=artist&q=tycho"

What would the equivalent method be for "net/http" method where i could add insecure or validation=false.

I will be using the output to append a recipe in CHEF.

NOTE: The correct URI will be different and not the one mentioned in the above link

Any leads is greatly appreciated.

Thank you Anish

Answer 1

To turn off certificate verification, try this:

require 'net/http'
require 'json'
require 'openssl'

url = 'https://api.spotify.com/v1/search?type=artist&q=tycho'
uri = URI(url)
http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)

http.use_ssl     = true
http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE

response = http.request_get(uri.path).body
JSON.parse(response)
puts(response)