From: Andrew Walrond <andrew@...>
Date: 2003-10-26T05:00:10+09:00
Subject: Question for http experts

I have to type
	http://username:password@www.some.url/downloads/file
into a browser to download a file. How can I do this with the net/http module 
in ruby?

I have tried:

	require 'net/http'
	h = Net::HTTP.new('username:password@www.some.url')
	h.get('/downloads/file',nil,'destfile')

Which works fine for files without the username:password@ part, but here gives

	SocketError: getaddrinfo: Name or service not known

I am totally html ignorant, so any suggestions greatly apprieciated!

Andrew Walrond