PhantomJS failing to open HTTPS site

Note that as of 2014-10-16, PhantomJS defaults to using SSLv3 to open HTTPS connections. With the POODLE vulnerability recently announced, many servers are disabling SSLv3 support.

To get around that, you should be able to run PhantomJS with:

phantomjs --ssl-protocol=tlsv1

Hopefully, PhantomJS will be updated soon to make TLSv1 the default instead of SSLv3.

I tried Fred's and Cameron Tinker's answers, but only --ssl-protocol=any option seem to help me:

phantomjs --ssl-protocol=any test.js

Also I think it should be way safer to use --ssl-protocol=any as you still are using encryption, but --ignore-ssl-errors=true will ignore (duh) all ssl errors, including malicious ones.

The problem is most likely due to SSL certificate errors. If you start phantomjs with the --ignore-ssl-errors=yes option, it should proceed to load the page as it would if there were no SSL errors:

phantomjs --ignore-ssl-errors=yes [phantomOptions] script.js [scriptOptions]

I've seen a few websites having problems with incorrectly implementing their SSL certificates or they've expired, etc. A complete list of command line options for phantomjs is available here: http://phantomjs.org/api/command-line.html. I hope this helps.