class Cucumber::Formatter::HTTPIO

def self.open(url, https_verify_mode = nil, reporter = nil)

to ignore unsigned certificate - setting to nil will verify the certificate
https_verify_mode can be set to OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE
Returns an IO that will write to a HTTP request's body 
def self.open(url, https_verify_mode = nil, reporter = nil)
  uri, method, headers = CurlOptionParser.parse(url)
  IOHTTPBuffer.new(uri, method, headers, https_verify_mode, reporter)
end