From: Adriano Rodrigues Ferreira <ferreira@...>
Date: 2004-05-05T01:55:34+09:00
Subject: RubyGem behind an authenticating proxy


I would like to use RubyGem from behind an authenticating proxy, Squid, to 
be exact.

There is the -P option, but I couldn't get it right. I tried things like

	gem -P=http://proxy.mydomain.com:3128/ -Ri module
	gem --http_proxy=http://99.2.22.22:3128/ -Ri module (with IP numbers)

and I got just

	Attempting remote installation of 'RedCloth'
	407 Proxy Authentication Required

Then I tried URLs like this:
	
	http://user:pass@96.2.22.22:3128/

and also setting environment variables
	HTTP_PROXY
	HTTP_PROXY_USER
	HTTP_PROXY_PASS

But it really didn't care for my efforts. Anybody can give me some 
instruction of how to make it work? I am using Windows 2000 (shame one me) 
and "ruby 1.8.1 (2003-12-25) [i386-mswin32]".

Best regards,
Adriano.