From: Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Date: 2010-09-13T20:03:03+09:00
Subject: Re: WWW::Mechanize and basic_auth

Yiling Cao wrote:
> 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')
>> 
>> I get the following error:
>> 
>>     WWW::Mechanize::ResponseCodeError: 401 => Net::HTTPUnauthorized
>> 
>> Yes, I'm using the correct username and password. I can log in properly
>> via Firefox, just not with mechanize. How do I get basic authentication
>> to work in this instance?
> 
> 
> 
> Is it solved? Im having the exactly same problem as well. I have tried
> basic_auth, but didnt work. while curl -u user:pass (URL) works.

Check the whole thread at http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/146128

It says you need agent.basic_auth(...), not agent.auth(...)
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