From: Jeffrey 'jf' Lim <jfs.world@...>
Date: 2008-03-19T12:59:00+09:00
Subject: Re: WWW::Mechanize and basic_auth

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On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 1:56 AM, Todd A. Jacobs <
tjacobs-sndr-019fdb@codegnome.org> 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?
>

the realm is presented by the server. This has nothing to do with the client
in that sense.

-jf

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In the meantime, here is your PSA:
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