Open-uri and proxies

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I was trying to play with open-uri as shown on Whytheluckystiff’s
What’s Shiny and new in Ruby 1.8 article:

require 'open-uri’
require ‘yaml’

open( “http://www.whytheluckystiff.net/why.yml” ) do |f|
feed = YAML::load( f )
end

But I’m behind a firewall and need to use a proxy to get out. Any way
to use proxies with open-uri?

Phil

2

Phil:

you can try setting your proxy via Env variable.

export HTTP_PROXY=your.proxy.goes.here

I’m also behind a firewall, I tried it, the proxy was taken from the env var but I got the following error:

usr/local/bin/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:143:in open_loop': undefined method proxy_open’ for #<URI::Generic:0x200c61c0 URL:http-myproxy.com> (NoMethodError)
from /usr/local/bin/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:105:in open_uri' from /usr/local/bin/lib/ruby/1.8/open-uri.rb:74:in open’
from 2.rb:4

p “?”

-Ronnie.

Phil Tomson wrote:

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I was trying to play with open-uri as shown on Whytheluckystiff’s
What’s Shiny and new in Ruby 1.8 article:

require ‘open-uri’
require ‘yaml’

open( “http://www.whytheluckystiff.net/why.yml” ) do |f|
feed = YAML::load( f )
end

But I’m behind a firewall and need to use a proxy to get out. Any way
to use proxies with open-uri?

Phil

3

intc_ctor@yahoo.com (Phil Tomson) wrote in message news:c68ca8f2.0401300938.22c699b9@posting.google.com…

I was trying to play with open-uri as shown on Whytheluckystiff’s
What’s Shiny and new in Ruby 1.8 article:

require ‘open-uri’
require ‘yaml’

open( “http://www.whytheluckystiff.net/why.yml” ) do |f|
feed = YAML::load( f )
end

But I’m behind a firewall and need to use a proxy to get out. Any way
to use proxies with open-uri?

Found the recipe, here it is if you need it:

open(“http://www.ruby-lang.org”,:proxy=>“http://your.proxy.here:8080”) do |f|
f.each_line {|line| p line }
end

Phil