From: Chad Fowler <chadfowler@...>
Date: 2004-05-06T23:03:17+09:00
Subject: Re: RubyGem behind an authenticating proxy

On Thu, 6 May 2004 16:58:56 +0900, George Marrows
<george.marrows@ps.ge.com> wrote:
> 
> 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 never meant to imply that your code *broke* it. :)

> > 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.
> 

I was surprised, too.  Any open-uri hackers listening?

Chad