Proxy Authentication

ruby-talk
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Hi

I'm behind an authenticated proxy and want to install few plugins (for
rails and radrails) for which I tried using NTLM proxy Authenticator but
could not succeed

I also tried http://blog.pomozov.info/posts/the-end-of-gem-vs-proxy-war.html
<http://pomozov.info/downloads/gems/rubygems-update-0.8.11.6-patched.gem>
which corrupted my gem and had to reinstall all again :frowning:

Is there any other alternative for the same within ruby? (A non ruby
solution will also be thanked)

(I also found a bug reported for the same at RubyForge
http://rubyforge.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1289&group_id=126&atid=575
)

Thanks in advance

Vishwanath Nayak K

2

I wrote a gem that will authenticate with such a proxy using your current
credentials. It is Win32 only.

To use it, follow these steps:

1) Download and (locally) install the rubysspi gem found at
http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubysspi/
2) Copy "spa.rb" from the gem's installation directory to your site_ruby
directory (this allows the library to be included from the command line)
3) Find "gem.cmd" in your ruby bin directory and add "-rspa" to the command
line arguments passed to ruby there.
4) Make sure the environment variable http_proxy is set to your proxy and is
a valid URL (e.g. http://www.proxy.corp:8080)

That's it! YOu can now run "gem install <wahtever>" from the command line.

If you need a non-Win32 solution, or one that will authenticate as a given
user, check out the Python APS server at http://ntlmaps.sourceforge.net/

路路路

On 8/1/06, NAYAK <nayakk@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi

I'm behind an authenticated proxy and want to install few plugins (for
rails and radrails) for which I tried using NTLM proxy Authenticator but
could not succeed

3

Hey Justin,

I followed the steps you told me and I am still not able to pass
authentication details the proxy server when I run ruby script/plugin

Regards
NAYAK

路路路

On 8/1/06, Justin Bailey <jgbailey@gmail.com> wrote:

On 8/1/06, NAYAK <nayakk@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I'm behind an authenticated proxy and want to install few plugins (for
> rails and radrails) for which I tried using NTLM proxy Authenticator
but
> could not succeed

I wrote a gem that will authenticate with such a proxy using your current
credentials. It is Win32 only.

To use it, follow these steps:

1) Download and (locally) install the rubysspi gem found at
http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubysspi/
2) Copy "spa.rb" from the gem's installation directory to your site_ruby
directory (this allows the library to be included from the command line)
3) Find "gem.cmd" in your ruby bin directory and add "-rspa" to the
command
line arguments passed to ruby there.
4) Make sure the environment variable http_proxy is set to your proxy and
is
a valid URL (e.g. http://www.proxy.corp:8080)

That's it! YOu can now run "gem install <wahtever>" from the command line.

If you need a non-Win32 solution, or one that will authenticate as a given
user, check out the Python APS server at http://ntlmaps.sourceforge.net/

4

Try ruby -rspa script/plugin

Email me offline with more details if you wish.

Justin

路路路

On 8/1/06, NAYAK <nayakk@gmail.com> wrote:

Hey Justin,

I followed the steps you told me and I am still not able to pass
authentication details the proxy server when I run ruby script/plugin

5

Thanks Justin,
It is working fine now

Thanks,
NAYAK

路路路

On 8/2/06, Justin Bailey <jgbailey@gmail.com> wrote:

On 8/1/06, NAYAK <nayakk@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hey Justin,
>
> I followed the steps you told me and I am still not able to pass
> authentication details the proxy server when I run ruby script/plugin

Try ruby -rspa script/plugin

Email me offline with more details if you wish.

Justin