Gem will not communicate with IRUS HTTPS server

[calvinbutcher]

The IRUS gem is a wrapper for "openurl" (https://github.com/openurl/openurl). This, in turn, is a wrapper for the Ruby Net:HTTP library class. The openurl gem does not provide an accessor for the "use_ssl" method. We managed to sidestep this issue by cloning the IRUS gem and hacking it with the following code:

irus_analytics_service.rb (https://github.com/uohull/irus_analytics/blob/master/lib/irus_analytics/irus_analytics_service.rb)

      uri = URI.parse('https://irus.jisc.ac.uk/counter/test')

      my_http_client = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
      my_http_client.use_ssl = true
      my_http_client.open_timeout = 3
      my_http_client.read_timeout = 5

      // *******************************************************************************
      // our hack re-sets the transport with a new instance of Net::HTTP (defined above)
      // wherein we set "use_ssl" to true.
      // *******************************************************************************

      transport.instance_variable_set(:@client, my_http_client)
      transport.get

      if transport.code != "200"
        raise "ERROR:  @irus_server_address: " + @irus_server_address +
                     " set_event_datestamp: " + params[:date_stamp] +
                     " set_client_ip_address: " + params[:client_ip_address] +
                     " user_agent: " + params[:user_agent] +
                     " set_oai_identifier: " + params[:item_oai_identifier] +
                     " set_file_url: " + params[:file_url] +
                     " set_http_referer: " + params[:http_referer] +
                     " set_source_repository: " + params[:source_repository] +
                     " transport.code: " + transport.code +
                     " transport.response: " + transport.response
      end

This explains the issues we've been having communicating with https:// JISC addresses both past and present.