From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2007-09-28T07:20:05+09:00
Subject: Re: OneClickInstaller/RubyGems problems

Don't top post.

On Sep 27, 2007, at 13:30 , Aureliano Calvo wrote:
> On 9/27/07, Eric Hodel <drbrain@segment7.net> wrote:
>> 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.)
>
> I've patched on my PC and posted on the ticket how I did it. The link
> is http://rubyforge.org/tracker/? 
> func=detail&atid=575&aid=12887&group_id=126

This patch doesn't have anything to do with NTLM.