On Dec 1, 12:02 am, Jim Clark <diegosl... / gmail.com> wrote: > I have rewritten my net/http script that I had questions on a couple of > days ago using httpclient but am stuck on the NTLM authentication piece. > This is what I have so far: FWIW, I've worked around this in the past by using a download of curl that supports ntlm, and wrapped that in a shell command. Note that if you want binary data (which it doesn't sound like you do) and are on windows, you'll need to go through a temporary file to work around this bug: http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?func=detail&aid=14565&group_id=426&atid=1698