From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2012-12-08T18:58:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Parsing json which require username and password

On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 9:47 AM, Ferdous ara <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> Hi
> I want Fetch a web page which has json output, but the problem is, that
> page has username and password,  so i am using like this
>
> #!/usr/bin/ruby
> require 'rubygems'
> require 'json'
>
>
>
> current=`curl -fs -basic -u  "username:password"
> http://ourmonitoringsystem.lan/cgi-bin/status.cgi?serviceprops=42&servicestatustypes=28&type=detail&hostprops=10&host=all&page=1&entries=all&view_mode=json`
>
> result=JSON.parse(current)
>
> puts result
>
>
> But ts its giving me data + html output ..
>
> what will be the best way to achive my goal ?

If the request returns HTML you need a HTML parser and not a JSON parser.

-> Nokogiri

Cheers

robert

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