diff --git a/cookbook/014/01.rb b/cookbook/014/01.rb
index b1fa3bb..74290ff 100644
--- a/cookbook/014/01.rb
+++ b/cookbook/014/01.rb
@@ -6,18 +6,17 @@ puts open('http://oreilly.com/').read(200)
 require 'net/http'
 puts 'using "net/http"'
 response = Net::HTTP.get_response('oreilly.com', '/about/')
-puts 'response.code=', response.code
-puts 'response.body.size=', response.body.size
-puts 'response[\'Content-type\']=', response['Content-type']
-puts 'response[0, 200]', response.body[0, 200]
+puts 'response.code=' + response.code.to_s
+puts 'response.body.size=' + response.body.size.to_s
+puts 'response[\'Content-type\']=' + response['Content-type']
+puts 'response[0, 200]' + response.body[0, 200]
 
 
 # ------------------------------------------------------------
 require 'uri'
 puts 'using "net/http" with a URI'
-puts 'request object:', \
-    Net::HTTP.get(URI.parse("http://oreilly.com"))
-puts 'full response:'
+puts 'request object:' + \
+    Net::HTTP.get(URI.parse("http://oreilly.com")).to_s
 response = Net::HTTP.get_response(URI.parse("http://oreilly.com/about/"))
 
 # .........
@@ -32,11 +31,11 @@ puts case response.code[0]
     else "Non-standard status code."
 end
 
-puts 'Server=', response['Server']
-puts 'SERVER=', response['SERVER']
+puts 'Server=' + response['Server']
+puts 'SERVER=' + response['SERVER']
 
 puts 'all keys:'
-response.each_key { |key| puts key }
+response.each_key { |key| puts "    #{key}" }
 
 Net::HTTP.get_response('oreilly.com', '/about/') do |response|
     response.read_body do |segment|
diff --git a/cookbook/014/02.rb b/cookbook/014/02.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5f0ceea
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cookbook/014/02.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+require 'net/http'
+require 'uri'
+
+uri = URI.parse("https://www.donotcall.gov/")
+puts 'uri=' + uri.to_s
+
+request = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
+# response = request.get('/')
+# ^--- would have resulted in an error
+
+require 'net/https'
+puts 'making a request with use_ssl=true and verify_mode=VERIFY_NONE'
+request.use_ssl = true
+request.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE
+response = request.get('/')
+
+puts 'response.body.size=' + response.body.size.to_s
+
+
+request = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
+puts 'making a request with use_ssl=true, ' + \
+     'ca_path=/etc/ssl/certs and verify_mode=VERIFY_PEER'
+request.use_ssl = true
+request.ca_path = "/etc/ssl/certs/"
+request.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_PEER
+response = request.get('/')
+
+puts 'response.body.size=' + response.body.size.to_s