I am having this problem on the staging server. I get the following error when making this call from rails console:
Errno::ECONNRESET: Connection reset by peer
from /Users/mumm/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/ruby/1.9.1/openssl/buffering.rb:174:in `sysread_nonblock'
from /Users/mumm/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/ruby/1.9.1/openssl/buffering.rb:174:in `read_nonblock'
from /Users/mumm/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/protocol.rb:141:in `rbuf_fill'
from /Users/mumm/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/protocol.rb:122:in `readuntil'
from /Users/mumm/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/protocol.rb:132:in `readline'
from /Users/mumm/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:2562:in `read_status_line'
from /Users/mumm/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:2551:in `read_new'
from /Users/mumm/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:1319:in `block in transport_request'
from /Users/mumm/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:1316:in `catch'
from /Users/mumm/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:1316:in `transport_request'
from /Users/mumm/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:1293:in `request'
from /Users/mumm/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:1286:in `block in request'
from /Users/mumm/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:745:in `start'
from /Users/mumm/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p0/lib/ruby/1.9.1/net/http.rb:1284:in `request'
from /Users/mumm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p0/gems/httparty-0.8.3/lib/httparty/request.rb:76:in `perform'
from /Users/mumm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p0/gems/httparty-0.8.3/lib/HTTParty.rb:400:in `perform_request'
from /Users/mumm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p0/gems/httparty-0.8.3/lib/HTTParty.rb:363:in `post'
from /Users/mumm/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p0/gems/httparty-0.8.3/lib/HTTParty.rb:436:in `post'
from (irb):2