This is a snippet of code for connecting to an https server via Ruby's Net::HTTP class

https.rb

uri = URI('https://www.your-site.com/home/')

https = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
https.use_ssl = true
https.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE
# use OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_PEER instead and https.ca_file for a verified cert
https.start do |http|
	request = Net::HTTP::Get.new uri.request_uri
	request.basic_auth 'username','password'
	response = https.head('/home/')
	response.each do |key, value|
		puts key
		puts ' '*3 + value
	end
end