From: Justin Bailey <jgbailey@...>
Date: 2006-08-02T00:44:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Proxy Authentication

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On 8/1/06, NAYAK <nayakk@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I'm behind an authenticated proxy and want to install few plugins (for
> rails and radrails) for which I tried using  NTLM proxy Authenticator but
> could not succeed


I wrote a gem that will authenticate with such a proxy using your current
credentials. It is Win32 only.

To use it, follow these steps:

1) Download and (locally) install the rubysspi gem found at
http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubysspi/
2) Copy "spa.rb" from the gem's installation directory to your site_ruby
directory (this allows the library to be included from the command line)
3) Find "gem.cmd" in your ruby bin directory and add "-rspa" to the command
line arguments passed to ruby there.
4) Make sure the environment variable http_proxy is set to your proxy and is
a valid URL (e.g. http://www.proxy.corp:8080)

That's it! YOu can now run "gem install <wahtever>" from the command line.

If you need a non-Win32 solution, or one that will authenticate as a given
user, check out the Python APS server at  http://ntlmaps.sourceforge.net/

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