From: Clifford Heath <cjh_nospam@...>
Date: 2003-11-17T10:27:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Access ftp-server through proxy

Kristian S�rensen wrote:
> Okay, that's sounds easy, but I can't get it to work. Can you complete a 
> ftp-download example?

I don't know if it's possible with Ruby 1.6. Your example doesn't work
because the "start" method expects a DNS-resolvable name, but you
gave it "ftp://anonymous:anonymous@ftp.sunsite.dk".

I don't recall seeing this in 1.6, but 1.8 has Net::HTTP.Proxy:

#! /usr/bin/env ruby
require 'net/http'

Net::HTTP::Proxy('webproxy.local', 3128).start('ftp.netscape.com') { |http|
         response, data = http.get('/')
         $stdout.write(data)
}

Works a treat here.