Error from brew search sql

[wilkinson]

I ran brew search sql and received the following output:

automysqlbackup        mysql-connector-c          postgresql
google-sql-tool        mysql-connector-c++        sqlcipher
groonga-normalizer-mysql   mysql-connector-odbc       sqlite
mysql              mysql-proxy            sqliteman
mysql++            mysqlreport
mysql-cluster          osm2pgsql
Error: SSL_connect SYSCALL returned=5 errno=0 state=SSLv3 read finished A
Please report this bug:
    https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/wiki/troubleshooting
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:586:in `connect'
/usr/local/Library/Homebrew/cmd/search.rb:70:in `value'
/usr/local/Library/Homebrew/cmd/search.rb:70:in `search_taps'
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:586:in `inject'
/usr/local/Library/Homebrew/cmd/search.rb:67:in `each'
/usr/local/Library/Homebrew/cmd/search.rb:67:in `inject'
/usr/local/Library/Homebrew/cmd/search.rb:67:in `search_taps'
/usr/local/Library/Homebrew/cmd/search.rb:30:in `search'
/usr/local/Library/brew.rb:95:in `send'
/usr/local/Library/brew.rb:95

I have uploaded my computer's settings as a gist.

[wilkinson]

This issue does not occur for brew search, but it does occur for brew search '', which I find interesting.

[wilkinson]

It may be relevant that I am on a very slow connection, because it may be a timeout issue.

[jacknagel]

A cursory google search seems to suggest this is a transient error, so you may be correct.

We can definitely catch OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError and pretty up the error message, but probably not much beyond that.

This issue does not occur for brew search, but it does occur for brew search '', which I find interesting.

The command treats the case of "no arguments" and "a single empty argument" differently (no idea why, it predates my work on the project), but I agree that it is unintuitive and the two behaviors should be reconciled in some way.