ruby - Using Net::HTTP.get for an https url

Question

I'm trying to use Net::HTTP.get() for an https URL:

@data = Net::HTTP.get(uri, Net::HTTP.https_default_port())

However, I get the following result when I try to print the results:

can't convert URI::HTTPS into String

What's the deal? I'm using Ruby 1.8.7 (OS X)

Answer 1

Original answer:

uri = URI.parse("https://example.com/some/path")
http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
http.use_ssl = true
@data = http.get(uri.request_uri)

As pointed out in the comments, this is more elegant:

require "open-uri"
@data = URI.parse("https://example.com/some/path").read