A quick guide to downgrading OpenSSL with Homebrew

openssl_downgrade.md

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Excon Error

You may suffer an error that looks like this. It's possible you are setting up a new Mac, or you just recompiled your Ruby.

Excon::Errors::SocketError in ...
Bad address (Errno::EFAULT)

At fault is OpenSSL (or, an integration with it). You'll likely need to get a different version of it. Assuming you are using Homebrew, do the following...

$ brew tap homebrew/versions
$ brew versions openssl

You should see a number of versions listed, look for 1.0.1l...

...
1.0.1l   git checkout b5cffc8 /usr/local/Library/Formula/openssl.rb
...
# Get this version in your Library by doing...
$ cd /usr/local/Library/Formula/
$ git checkout b5cffc8 /usr/local/Library/Formula/openssl.rb

NOTE: Make sure you use your path and git-ref, not what is shown in this example.

Then rebuild ruby.

  $ rvm reinstall 2.1.0 # CHANGE TO YOUR RUBY VERSION

And that should fix it.

@mahcloud , the solution you provided is not working anymore

$ brew tap homebrew/boneyard

==> Tapping homebrew/boneyard
Cloning into '/usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-boneyard'...
remote: Repository not found.
fatal: repository 'https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-boneyard/' not found
Error: Failure while executing; `git clone https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-boneyard /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-boneyard --origin=origin --template= --config core.fsmonitor=false` exited with 128.

@mahcloud , the solution you provided is not working anymore

$ brew tap homebrew/boneyard

==> Tapping homebrew/boneyard
Cloning into '/usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-boneyard'...
remote: Repository not found.
fatal: repository 'https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-boneyard/' not found
Error: Failure while executing; `git clone https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-boneyard /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-boneyard --origin=origin --template= --config core.fsmonitor=false` exited with 128.

sorry @Victorcorcos , it looks like this document has been labeled as obsolete