From: Alexander Bokovoy <a.bokovoy@...>
Date: 2002-10-09T18:49:46+09:00
Subject: Re: reading from a URL

On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 01:39:26AM +0900, ts wrote:
> >>>>> "A" == Alexander Bokovoy <a.bokovoy@sam-solutions.net> writes:
> 
> A> That's good to hear. In meantime, I'm patching my Ruby packages for ALT
> A> Linux using this code and it works w/o problems.
> 
>  Well, I know nothing about all these things (www, http, ...) and probably
>  I'll say stupidities, but it was not possible to make something like for GET
> 
>     proxy = Net::HTTP::Proxy($proxy_addr, $proxy_port)
>     proxy.basic_auth 'account', 'password'
>     proxy.start { ... }
> 
>  this will give the possibility to have another authentifcation mechanism
This is an authorization for the site itself, not for proxy because proxy
wants to have 'Proxy-Authorization:' field header set, not 'Basic-Auth:' 
which it passes to requested site. So it didn't help actually.


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