From: Ron Jeffries <ronjeffries@...>
Date: 2002-02-18T12:06:01+09:00
Subject: Re: net/http or webfetcher with pasworded urls

On Mon, 18 Feb 2002 00:37:42 +0000 (UTC), Niklas Frykholm
<r2d2@acc.umu.se> wrote:

>
>		require 'net/http'
>
>		Net::HTTP.start( 'auth.some.domain' ) {|http|
>			response , = http.get( '/need-auth.cgi',
>					'Authentication' =>
>					["#{account}:#{password}"].pack('m').strip )
>			print response.body
>		}

Hmmm, when I do this it still gives the 401 error.  Got me pretty
confused, I must say ...

Thanks, I'll keep tweaking. Guess I'll have to set up a
password-protected page just to test on ... I can't publish the one I'm
working on at the moment for folks to try.

In my case I'm wanting to put in a regular get from /foobar.htm, not to
a cgi file. As I mentioned in the first post, using the username and
password in the url in a browser works fine. 

Thanks again, more ideas welcome!

Ronald E Jeffries
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