From: george.marrows@... (George Marrows)
Date: 2004-05-06T16:58:56+09:00
Subject: Re: RubyGem behind an authenticating proxy

Chad Fowler <chadfowler@gmail.com> wrote in message news:<F7912CCC.694333A4@mail.gmail.com>...

> Also, George Marrows did the open-uri stuff, and one
> of the best things about it is it *greatly* simplied our HTTP code.

Glancing back through the RubyGems CVS, it seems that the original
HTTP code didn't support authenticating proxies. That's not any help
to Adriano, but it is some consolation to me :)

> I think it would definitely be worth looking into adding proxy
> authentication support to open-uri.rb as opposed to hacking RubyGems
> to work around it.

Completely agreed. I'm a little surprised it doesn't just work already
... open-uri puts in a lot of effort to try to do the right thing by
the various PROXY environment variables.

-- George