From: intc_ctor@... (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2004-01-31T08:14:53+09:00
Subject: Re: open-uri and proxies

intc_ctor@yahoo.com (Phil Tomson) wrote in message news:<c68ca8f2.0401300938.22c699b9@posting.google.com>...
> 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?
> 
 
Found the recipe, here it is if you need it:

  open("http://www.ruby-lang.org",:proxy=>"http://your.proxy.here:8080") do |f|
    f.each_line {|line| p line }
  end


Phil