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I'm trying to use the API of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and trying to use the API using curl works perfectly and returns the results almost immediately:

curl -X GET "https://api.bls.gov/publicAPI/v2/timeseries/data/CFU0000008000"

However, when I try to run this in irb using rest-client, it always causes a RestClient::Exceptions::OpenTimeout (Timed out connecting to server) exception:

RestClient.get "https://api.bls.gov/publicAPI/v2/timeseries/data/CFU0000008000"

If I increase the open timeout, to say 240, it works and gets the results eventually but it takes forever. I tried uninstalling and installing rails again, but I haven't been able to figure out the issue.

I'm running rails 6.0.2.2, ruby 2.7, and rest-client 2.1.0 on macOS Catalina.

Update: on researching this further, I see that the RestClient::Exceptions::OpenTimeout exception wraps Net::OpenTimeout so this is something not specific to rest-client maybe.

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  • Is ruby running in the same environment as curl? Same proxy settings, interface etc?
    – su_li
    Commented Apr 6, 2020 at 19:04
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