From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2001-09-27T14:14:42+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:21761] Re: Accessing Internet thru proxy using NET:HTTP routines

>>>>> "s" == spanton  <spanton7@home.com> writes:

s> My computer is behind a firewall, which prompts for a username & password.
s> Can anyone help me the additional code to respond to the proxy in an
s> automated fashion to access a Web site outside the firewall.

 In the documentation of http.rb you have

=== Basic Authentication

    require 'net/http'

    Net::HTTP.start( 'auth.some.domain' ) {|http|
      response , = http.get( '/need-auth.cgi',
              'Authentication' => ["#{account}:#{password}"].pack('m').strip )
      print response.body
    }

In version 1.2 (Ruby 1.7 or later), you can write like this:

    require 'net/http'

    req = Net::HTTP::Get.new('/need-auth.cgi')
    req.basic_auth 'account', 'password'
    Net::HTTP.start( 'auth.some.domain' ) {|http|
      response = http.request( req )
      print response.body
    }



Guy Decoux