From: Chris McMahon <christopher.mcmahon@...>
Date: 2006-07-19T04:20:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby SOAP Client Question


gregarican wrote:
> I am attempting to write a small SOAP client script using Ruby 1.8.2
> for Windows. The SOAP server will be located on the other side of an
> authenticating proxy server. I see there's a #setHttpProxy method
> available that I can use to specify the host and the port. Is there a
> quick and easy way to set the username and password? I tried using
> http://username:password@server.com as the URL but no luck.
>
> Any suggestions?

See
http://chrismcmahonsblog.blogspot.com/2006/03/soap-basic-authentication-in-ruby.html
for instructions on basic authentication.  

-Chris