From: Rob Biedenharn <Rob@...>
Date: 2010-12-09T06:02:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Consume Soap Service with Basic Authentication


On Dec 8, 2010, at 3:11 PM, Chris Gunnels wrote:

> @tony all those dependencies you listed all have new versions.
> @john, i saw that but i didn't want to have to use httpclient  
> because i
> didn't know if I could trust it and if it is going to be maintained.  
> The
> reason i thought this is because I couldn't find it on rubygems.org or
> rubyforge.
>
> -- 
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Because it's been around for a long time.  Look on RAA

http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/httpclient/2.1.5.2

Back when I had to use Soap4R on a project, httpclient was just fine  
and even without much (English) documentation (which can be common on  
older ruby code that was born in Japan), I was able to add a little  
capability to it so I could remember and restore a cookiejar from the  
database (as a YAML string). [My application needed to act as a client  
to a SOAP service during a request.]

Sometimes "not updated recently" means "hasn't had any reported bugs"  
rather than "unmaintained".

-Rob

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