From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2009-05-12T22:23:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Want some information....

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Arun Kumar
<arunkumar@innovaturelabs.com> wrote:
> Robert Klemme wrote:
>> 2009/5/12 Arun Kumar <arunkumar@innovaturelabs.com>:
>>> � I want to know about authentication in ruby. Is it possible to scrap
>>> html of those sites which require basic authentication.
>>
>> I am not a native speaker but for all I know "want" is considered
>> impolite among English speaking people.
>>
>>> N. B. - providing link to any documentation which states this problem
>>> will be really helpfull.
>>
>> What did your research turn up?  Did you check the standard library's
>> documentation in the well known place?
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> robert
>
> Hi
>  Thanks for the quick reply. Sorry for the impolite statement.
>
>  require 'net/http'
>
>    Net::HTTP.start('www.example.com') {|http|
>      req = Net::HTTP::Get.new('/secret-page.html')
>      req.basic_auth 'account', 'password'
>      response = http.request(req)
>      print response.body
>    }
>
> This is the phrase which I got from the ruby-doc site. I dont know
> whether this is helpfull or not. That's why I asked such a doubt. Please
> give me a general guidance for this issue.

Well did you try it?

If it didn't work, did you make the correct substitutions for
'account' and 'password' ?


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