From: "Bermejo, Rodrigo" <rodrigo.bermejo@...>
Date: 2004-01-31T07:01:38+09:00
Subject: Re: open-uri and proxies

Phil:

you can try setting your proxy via Env variable.

export  HTTP_PROXY=your.proxy.goes.here


I'm also behind a  firewall, I tried it, the proxy was taken from the env var but  I got the following error:

usr/local/bin/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:143:in `open_loop': undefined method `proxy_open' for #<URI::Generic:0x200c61c0 URL:http-myproxy.com> (NoMethodError)
    from /usr/local/bin/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:105:in `open_uri'
    from /usr/local/bin/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:74:in `open'
    from 2.rb:4

p "?"


-Ronnie.

Phil Tomson wrote:

>I was trying to play with open-uri as shown on Whytheluckystiff's
>What's Shiny and new in Ruby 1.8 article:
>
>  require 'open-uri'
>  require 'yaml'
> 
>  open( "http://www.whytheluckystiff.net/why.yml" ) do |f|
>    feed = YAML::load( f )
>  end
>
>
>But I'm behind a firewall and need to use a proxy to get out.  Any way
>to use proxies with open-uri?
>
>Phil
>  
>