From: Minero Aoki <aamine@...>
Date: 2001-03-13T14:55:58+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:12545] Re: net/http get parameters

Hi,

  In mail "[ruby-talk:12501] net/http get parameters"
    Ron Jeffries <ronjeffries@acm.org> wrote:

> I was looking for how to do access to passworded pages with http.get,
> and found a reference here. Thanks! The code looks like:

> Now I have a meta-question: where could this kind of thing be looked
> up?

should be included in RD (of net/http). I add some code there.

FYI, from ruby 1.7 you can write basic auth like this:

  req = Net::HTTP::Get.new(path)
  req.basic_auth account, password
  http.request req

Minero Aoki