From: Heesob Park <phasis@...>
Date: 2008-09-22T19:30:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Download a file from a site that needs authentication

2008/9/22 Azalar --- <pteale@gmail.com>:
> No one ever needed to logon to a web site using basic http
> authentication to access a file?
> I would have thought this is quite a common task.
>
>
> Azalar --- wrote:
>> I have a membership to a web site that needs authentication before you
>> can download the file.
>> How can i download the file and authenticate so that it returns me the
>> file?
>> My initial research suggest i need to use basic http authentication but
>> I am not sure how to use this to do what i want.
>
require 'open-uri'
open("save.file","w").write(open(url,:http_basic_authentication =>
['user','pass']).read)

Regards,

Park Heesob