From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2007-05-23T00:26:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Gmail atom feed

On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 12:01:14AM +0900, Fred Phillips wrote:
> I'm trying to use basic auth to retrieve my Gmail atom feed but I keep on
> getting "Connection reset by peer".
> 
> Here's the code:
> 
> $URL_FEED = 'https://mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom'
> 
> def retrieve
>        puts "Retrieving mail count..."
>        @url = URI.parse($URL_FEED)
>        h = Net::HTTP.new(@url.host,@url.port)
>        begin
>            unpw = [@email,@password]
>            unpw = @unpw.join(':')
>            z=[unpw].pack("m")
>            @unpwd={'Authorization' => 'Basic ' + z }
>            puts @unpwd
>            resp = h.get(@url.path,@unpwd)
>            @headers = ""
>            resp.each {|key,val| @headers.concat("#{key}: #{val}\n")}
>            puts @response.body
>        rescue Net::ProtoFatalError => detail
>            head = detail.data
>            head.each {|key,val| puts "#{key} #{val}"}
>        end
> end

This is HTTPS. See /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/https.rb (or the equivalent on your
system) for an example of how to use HTTPS URLs.