I am trying to connect to the Blockchain.info wallet API, but i keep getting disconnected. I've tried the recommended wrapper for ruby https://github.com/jjeffus/rpcjson, and i've tried simply with net/http. I just keep getting this error

bc = RPC::JSON::Client.new 'https://e6152eDbf-85f7-527e-9adf-8b1dt7fa4312a:password@blockchain.info:443', 1.1 => #, @version=1.1> 1.9.3-p194 :018 > bc.getinfo Errno::ECONNRESET: Connection reset by peer

I have tried connecting through bitcoind and that works fine. Forgive me if im missing something obvious.