From: "Mehr, Assaph (Assaph)" <assaph@...>
Date: 2004-05-05T08:25:48+09:00
Subject: Re: RubyGem behind an authenticating proxy

> I can't offer any real help; I can only say that RubyGems' proxy
> handling is completely outsourced to 'open-uri'.  If you can
> demonstrate a simple app using just that, in which your particular
> proxy works, it would help.

Why aren't you using 'net/http'?
This works for me.


require 'net/http'

# basic location info:
proxy_addr = 'sg.proxy.avaya.com'
proxy_port = 8000
proxy_user = 'assaph'
proxy_pass = 'xxx'
site = "www.weatherzone.com.au"
uri = "/local/local.jsp?fcast=94768&obs=94768&img=radar&rad=003&fn=true"

# Get the data and write it to a file
Net::HTTP::Proxy(proxy_addr, proxy_port, proxy_user,
proxy_pass).start(site) { |http|
    response = http.get(uri)
    File.open("Weather.htm"), "w+") { |f| f.puts response.body }
}


(and yes, Gavin, it downloads the sydney weather to my palm :)