From: Dominique Brezinski <dominique.brezinski@...>
Date: 2005-09-29T03:13:08+09:00
Subject: Re: gems is a language change, not a pkging system (Re: Require Namepaces and RubyGems' effect on LoadPath problem)

On 9/28/05, Austin Ziegler <halostatue@gmail.com> wrote:
> Just a simple question -- how would one authenticate with such a
> firewall with Ruby in general?

This is a really bad piece of code, but it shows using a standard lib
to use a username/password authenticated HTTP proxy for a get.

#! /usr/bin/ruby
require 'net/http'

site, uri = ARGV[0].split(/\//, 2)
puts "Site: #{site} URI: /#{uri}"

Net::HTTP::Proxy('192.168.1.1', 80, ARGV[1], ARGV[2]).start(site) do |http|
    http.read_timeout=(600)
    response = http.get("/#{uri}")
    File::open(uri.split(/\//)[-1], 'w') {|f| f.write(response.body) }
end