From: Tanaka Akira <akr@...17n.org>
Date: 2004-05-07T12:32:54+09:00
Subject: Re: RubyGem behind an authenticating proxy

In article <5e44d1a4.0405052356.2783266c@posting.google.com>,
  george.marrows@ps.ge.com (George Marrows) writes:

> 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.

open-uri doesn't support authentication yet because I'm not sure how
to specify username/password properly.
-- 
Tanaka Akira