From: Aaron Patterson <aaron@...>
Date: 2008-03-18T06:40:24+09:00
Subject: Re: WWW::Mechanize and basic_auth

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 02:56:06AM +0900, Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 06:05:04AM +0900, Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
> 
> > 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')
> 
> It occurs to me that there is no documented interface for selecting a
> realm. Is this automagical, or am I supposed to set the realm somehow?
> If so, how do I do that, and where is it documented?

For basic authentication, mechanize just delegates to net/http.  Can you
add a logger to mechanize and send me your logs?
  
  agent.log = Logger.new(STDOUT)

Is this against Apache?  If so, could you send your config, and I'll try
to reproduce the error.

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Aaron Patterson
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