From: Jim Freeze <jim@...>
Date: 2002-09-26T03:20:19+09:00
Subject: Re: http/net

On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 01:05:53AM +0900, ts wrote:
> >>>>> "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
>     }
> 
First, let me say that I am a net/http dummy.

I would like to collect information from a website
at work. From my Netscape perspective, I type in
the URL:

  http://xyz.mycompany.com

It automatically redirects to

  http://xyz.mycompany.com:3000/scripts/isynch.dll

If I have not logged on, I get a login popup dialogue asking
for my username and password.

I tried the following code, but it gave an error.
Can someone point me in the right direction?

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

url0    = "http://xyz.mycompany.com"
url     = "http://xyz.mycompany.com:3000/"
auth    = "/scripts/isynch.dll"
account = "me"
passwd  = "notmyrealpassword"

Net::HTTP.start( url ) {|http|
  response, body = http.get( auth,
    'Authorization' => 'Basic ' + ["#{account}:#{passwd}"].pack('m').strip )
    print body
}
================


Thanks

Jim



> 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
> 

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