SSL Verify Error Ruby - ruby

Question

So I have this script:
#!/usr/bin/ruby
require 'net/https'
require 'open-uri'
puts "HTTPS Client for Ruby!"
puts "Enter the URL"
site = gets.chomp
url = URI.parse(site)
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host,url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_PEER
http.cert_store = OpenSSL::X509::Store.new
http.cert_store.set_default_paths
http.cert_store.add_file('/home/user/sec/certs/cacert.pem')
page = Net::HTTP.get(url)
puts page
It works fine. It's able to grab the html of the homepage of pretty much any http or https website. However, I have an HTTPS enabled webserver set up in a virtual machine which it doesn't work with. Before I enabled SSL on the webserver this script grabbed the html just fine. So my question is, why do I receive this error:
/usr/lib/ruby/2.1.0/net/http.rb:920:in `connect': SSL_connect returned=1 errno=0 state=SSLv3 read server certificate B: certificate verify failed (OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError)
from /usr/lib/ruby/2.1.0/net/http.rb:920:in `block in connect'
from /usr/lib/ruby/2.1.0/timeout.rb:67:in `timeout'
from /usr/lib/ruby/2.1.0/net/http.rb:920:in `connect'
from /usr/lib/ruby/2.1.0/net/http.rb:863:in `do_start'
from /usr/lib/ruby/2.1.0/net/http.rb:852:in `start'
from /usr/lib/ruby/2.1.0/net/http.rb:583:in `start'
from /usr/lib/ruby/2.1.0/net/http.rb:478:in `get_response'
from /usr/lib/ruby/2.1.0/net/http.rb:455:in `get'
from https_client.rb:20:in `<main>'
When running the script trying to grab the html of my web server? The path that I've specified has an actual certificate there.

Answer 1

You get that error when the SSL certificate is self signed/not from a verified ssl provider.So assuming the website you are pulling from, is your own/you trust it and hasn't a verified certificate, change
http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_PEER
to
http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE
same situation