From: Damphyr <damphyr@...>
Date: 2003-03-28T07:43:51+09:00
Subject: http and basic authentication

Hi everyone.
I'm quite new to Ruby and I'm not exactly familiar with the mailing 
lists and everything so scream if I'm abusing the list.
I have a problem with Net::HTTP and it's use of headers (well, it might 
be that the problem is in protocol.rb or that the problem is just me and 
my grasp of programming, we'll see).
The problem:
I want to access a site (which is provided by the firmware on my DSL 
router) that requires basic authentication.

The environment:
ruby 1.6.8-8 on W2K

I use the following code

http_connection = Net::HTTP.new('target').start()
headers ={}
headers['Authorization'] = 'Basic '+ ["id:pass"].pack('m').strip
begin
	resp, data = http_connection.get("/", headers)
#rescue
		
end

and I get the following errors

f:/devlab/ruby/lib/ruby/1.6/net/protocol.rb:221:in `error!': 401 
"Authorization Required" (Net::ProtoFatalError)
	from f:/devlab/ruby/lib/ruby/1.6/net/http.rb:1217:in `value'
	from f:/devlab/ruby/lib/ruby/1.6/net/http.rb:605:in `get'

Snooping on my network traffic I see the headers in a Continuation 
message so I am sending them, just not correctly :).
Shouldn't a 401 response produce a Net::ProtoRetriableError ?
Can anybody help me get past this?
Thanks,
V.-


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