From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2007-09-28T01:11:02+09:00
Subject: Re: OneClickInstaller/RubyGems problems

On Sep 27, 2007, at 07:39 , M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> Eric Hodel wrote:
>> On Sep 26, 2007, at 19:25 , M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
>>> Are you behind a firewall? I'm not sure RubyGems is sneaky enough to
>>> deal with proxy servers.
>> RubyGems has dealt with proxy servers for ages.
> Yes, but there's a special place in Heck reserved for the guy who  
> designed the NTLM proxy servers :). I have to use "aps", which is  
> written in (gasp) Python when I'm behind one of those, and mess  
> with "http_proxy" environment variables. Can't RubyGems do that  
> directly? Just ask me, "what's your NTLM password" and go get gems?  
> Apparently not. Then again, neither can ActiveState's Perl Package  
> Manager.

If Net::HTTP can do it, RubyGems can do it.  If you want RubyGems to  
work with NTLM, make Net::HTTP work with NTLM.

(There is a patch in the tracker, but it looks to be windows-only.)