From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2008-12-12T03:44:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Gems, Proxy authentication

On Dec 10, 2008, at 07:11 AM, Zhoran Tvalve wrote:
> John T. wrote:
>> I was finally able to get it to work by including the username and
>> password in the environment var:
>>
>> HTTP_PROXY=http://username:password@192.168.4.4:1234
>>
>> (replace username, password and proxy address/port as necessary)
>>
>> that made it work. I just have to remember to change it when I have  
>> to
>> change my password, every 90 days...
>
> Hi, John!
> So did I, but unsuccessful :(
> Stil got err 407 auth required
>
> Tryied to set http_proxy = 'domain 
> \username:password@192.168.1.32:3128'
> but uri\common.rb reported BAD URI ...
>
> setting http_proxy = 'domain\\username:password@192.168.1.32:3128'  
> makes
> the same

Ruby does not support NTLM authentication by default which is what  
your proxy probably uses.  Maybe this will help: http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubyntlm/