Test tool needs to support Self-signed cert for non-prod environments. But the first request is horribly slow... (15 seconds) Does not happen in curl or wget

test.rb

def preflight(uri) 
	#For some reason this speeds up connect on windows
	require 'socket'

	context = OpenSSL::SSL::SSLContext.new
	tcp_client = TCPSocket.new uri.host, uri.port
	ssl_client = OpenSSL::SSL::SSLSocket.new tcp_client, context
	ssl_client.connect
end

preflight(uri) 

http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)

http.use_ssl =(uri.scheme == 'https')

http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE

resp = http.post(uri.path, data, headers)

preflight works