From: Jim Clark <diegoslice@...>
Date: 2007-11-30T19:16:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Problems using client certificates with net/https

Daniel Sheppard wrote:
> 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
As Homer would say, "D'oh!". I checked the web server and it is indeed 
running "Integrated Windows Authentication". Thank you for pointing out 
what was staring me in the face.

To get NTLM authentication working with net/https, I found 
http://code.google.com/p/ruby-httpclient/wiki/Home and thought this 
would be a good option. Reading up on it would seem all I would need to 
do is apply the patch files to ntlm.rb and open-uri.rb and change my 
authentication line from:

request.basic_auth 'DOMAIN\username', 'password'
to
request.ntlm_auth 'DOMAIN\username', 'password'

No dice though... http.rb still has no clue about NTLM authentication. I 
started to modify http.rb to handle NTLM authentication based on the 
example in rubyntlm that uses sockets but found myself getting far 
deeper into NTLM auth than I wanted to for what should be a fairly short 
and simple project.

So, being lazy and pressed for time, I took another look and found the 
httpclient-2.1.2 library. However, documentation is sparse so does 
anyone have any good examples of it in use?

Thanks in advance!

-Jim