Heroku Rails app makes request to http endpoint instead of https

Question

I have a Rails app that uses the gem Httparty . It makes a call to Stubhub's API with a base URI of https://api.stubhub.com . The app behaves as expected locally and makes successful calls. However, when deployed to Heroku I get 403 forbidden error -- it is making the request to http instead of https. Is Heroku forcing the GET request to an http endpoint? Why? How can I fix this?

Thanks!

Answer 1

I have been struggling with a similar issue for months now. It recently came to my attention that the SSL version could cause this timeout. Using HTTParty I resolved this like this:

HTTParty.get('url_here', ssl_version: :SSLv3).body

I am unsure as to which ssl_version token you will need, but in my case, this fixed the problem. Take a look here for a little more information about where this came from:

https://github.com/jnunemaker/httparty/issues/257

A warning: SSLv3 is not secure, but that does not stop people from continuing to use it.