ruby on rails - 3dCart API integration with rails2 -

i need integrate rails 2 application 3dcart api. want make request number of orders in store. this, following http://api.3dcart.com/cart.asmx?op=getordercount

i created followin xml file

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <soap:envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"     xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/xmlschema-instance"     xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/xmlschema">   <soap:body>     <getordercount xmlns="http://3dcart.com/">       <storeurl>https://echtest3d.3dcartstores.com/</storeurl>       <userkey>my api key</userkey>     </getordercount>   </soap:body> 

then posting following

http = net::http.new("api.3dcart.com") http.use_ssl = false http.post("/cart.asmx", xml_file, {                'content-type' => 'text/xml; charset=utf-8',                'content-length' => "#{xml_file.length}",                'soapaction' => 'http://3dcart.com/getordercount' }) 

my problem that, response although

net::http ok 200 ok readbody=true

it contains following error node:

error trying data store. technical description: remote name not resolved: 'https' 

the store url shouldn't contain https prefix, should

echtest3d.3dcartstores.com/