From: Justin Bailey <jgbailey@...>
Date: 2006-07-18T02:15:39+09:00
Subject: [ANN] RubySSPI 0.0.2 - Enabling Windows NTLM/Negotiate proxy authentication

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= What's New

A small release for my library, which now provides a file that can be copied
into site_ruby and used to enable proxy authentication from the command line
for any ruby script.

= Where to find it

Hosted on rubyforge:

http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubysspi/

Or via gem install:

gem install rubysspi

= What is it

Previously, if you had a proxy that required NTLM authentication you needed
to direct all your ruby calls to a local proxy such as the APS NTLM proxy (
http://ntlmaps.sourceforge.net/). This required you to enter your password
into a file or on start up. WIth this gem, ruby libraries such as open-uri
and net/http can directly access internet sites and you never have to enter
your username or password into any configuration files.

= How to use

The file provided in this release  is most useful for rubygems. To use
(assuming your rubygems is not working yet):

 1) Download the gem via rubyforge:
http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/11657/rubysspi-0.0.1-i386-mswin32.gem
 2) Install
 3) Copy spa.rb from the rubysspi gem directory to your site_ruby\1.8
directory
 3) set your http_proxy environment variable (e.g.
http://proxy.corp.com:8080)
 4) Run rubygems:

  ruby -rspa 'C:\Program Files\ruby\bin\gem' list --remote rubysspi

The adventerous can modify their gem.bat and gem.cmd files to include this
library always, and then run the familiar gem commands directly.

Commants and feedback welcome!

Justin

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