From: Bill Kelly <billk@...>
Date: 2003-10-26T05:51:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Question for http experts

Hi,

From: "Andrew Walrond" <andrew@walrond.org>
>
> 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?

There's - I suspect - a more elegant way to do this, but here's
what I use:


require 'net/http'
require 'base64'

user_pass = "username:password"
auth_header = { 'Authorization' => 'Basic '+encode64(user_pass).chop }

http = Net::HTTP.new('www.some.host')
resp, data = http.get("/some_page.html", auth_header)


Hope this helps,

Bill