From: "Todd A. Jacobs" <tjacobs-sndr-019fdb@...>
Date: 2008-03-16T06:05:04+09:00
Subject: WWW::Mechanize and basic_auth

I'm trying to get basic authentication to work with Ruby 1.8 and
WWW::Mechanize 0.7, and am having no luck:

    require 'mechanize'
    agent=WWW::Mechanize.new
    agent.auth('foo', 'bar')
    agent.get('http://192.168.20.10')

I get the following error:

    WWW::Mechanize::ResponseCodeError: 401 => Net::HTTPUnauthorized

Yes, I'm using the correct username and password. I can log in properly
via Firefox, just not with mechanize. How do I get basic authentication
to work in this instance?

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