From: NAYAK <nayakk@...>
Date: 2006-08-02T15:36:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Proxy Authentication

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Hey Justin,

I followed the steps you told me and I am still not able to pass
authentication details the proxy server when I run ruby script/plugin

Regards
NAYAK

On 8/1/06, Justin Bailey <jgbailey@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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