From: Daniel Sheppard <daniels@...>
Date: 2007-11-30T11:45:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Problems using client certificates with net/https

> I have a very basic script to access a SSL encrypted site that uses 
> client certificates. Problem is that I continue to get 401 
> unauthorized 
> https.start do |https|
>   request = Net::HTTP::Get.new('/default.asp')
>   request.basic_auth 'DOMAIN\username', 'password'
>   response = https.request(request)
>   response.value
>   puts response.body
> end
> 
> This is the error output:
> 401 "Unauthorized"

Given the fact that you're username looks like a windows domain user
name, I'm guessing that the server is using NTLM authentication and not
basic authentication.

Dan.