gregarican wrote:
> Thanks for submitting this. What you have posted appears to deal with a
> WSDL service that requires client authentication. I am talking about a
> proxy server that sits between the client and the WSDL service. Right
> now I am noodling around with SOAP::Env.getenv('http_proxy') to see if
> I can get the username:password portion of the URI to parse out so I
> can use the #setHttpProxy method. We'll see...
>
> Chris McMahon wrote:
> > gregarican wrote:
> > > I am attempting to write a small SOAP client script using Ruby 1.8.2
> > > for Windows. The SOAP server will be located on the other side of an
> > > authenticating proxy server. I see there's a #setHttpProxy method
> > > available that I can use to specify the host and the port. Is there a
> > > quick and easy way to set the username and password? I tried using
> > > http://username:password / server.com as the URL but no luck.
> > >
> > > Any suggestions?
> >
> > See
> > http://chrismcmahonsblog.blogspot.com/2006/03/soap-basic-authentication-in-ruby.html
> > for instructions on basic authentication.
> >
> > -Chris

Would SOAP::HTTPConfigLoader::set_basic_auth(...) be of any help with
this?  (Just a shot in the dark - I've only done a little w/soap and it
was a while back.)

Ken