From: Dick Davies <rasputnik@...>
Date: 2004-05-05T19:45:16+09:00
Subject: Re: RubyGem behind an authenticating proxy

* Mehr, Assaph (Assaph) <assaph@avaya.com> [0526 00:26]:
> > 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'?

Probably because it doesn't support ftp :)
AFAIK, open-uri is a wrapper round net/http anyway?

It just means you can replace the below with a simple 
open(url) generally. It picks up your proxy from the environment
too, which is nice. Pity about the authentication, but that sounds
like a simple bug/missing feature.

> 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 }
> }

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