From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2005-09-29T03:43:07+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, Dominique Brezinski <dominique.brezinski@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

[...]

Thank you, and you're right -- that's ugly. I *think* that RubyGems
currently uses open-uri, but I could be wrong. Still, it might be
necessary to go that direction in the case of HTTP proxies.

-austin
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