From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2002-09-26T01:05:53+09:00
Subject: Re: http/net

>>>>> "M" == Manfred Hansen <manfred@toppoint.de> writes:

M> The page need a password and a user for login. 

 Well, if you use basic authentification you have in the documentation 

=== Basic Authentication

    require 'net/http'
    Net::HTTP.version_1_1   # declear to use 1.1 features.

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

In version 1.2 (Ruby 1.7 or later), you can write like this:

    require 'net/http'
    Net::HTTP.version_1_2   # declear to use 1.2 features.

    req = Net::HTTP::Get.new('/need-auth.cgi')
    req.basic_auth 'account', 'password'
    Net::HTTP.start( 'auth.some.domain' ) {|http|
        response = http.request(req)
        print response.body
    }





Guy Decoux