On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Kga Agk<lord_kga / yahoo.no> wrote:
> I want to connect to a web site that require user name and password.
> This adress holds a file, like a txt, image pdf and so on. I want to get
> this payload. (Only going to check if the file is is empty or not).
>
>
> I Have tryed a billion different ways, but i cant get it to work. I get
> errors and stuff. The last error is like this.
>
> /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/net/http.rb:560:in `initialize': getaddrinfo: Name or
> service not known (SocketError)
>  ¨Βςο―υσς―μιβ―ςυβω―±®Έ―ξετ―θττπ®ςβΊµ¶°Ίιξ ΰοπεξ§
>  ¨Βςο―υσς―μιβ―ςυβω―±®Έ―ξετ―θττπ®ςβΊµ¶°Ίιξ ΰγοξξεγτ>  ¨Βςο―υσς―μιβ―ςυβω―±®Έ―τινεουτ®ςβΊµ³Ίιξ ΰτινεουτ>  ¨Βςο―υσς―μιβ―ςυβω―±®Έ―τινεουτ®ςβΊΉ³Ίιξ ΰτινεουτ>  ¨Βςο―υσς―μιβ―ςυβω―±®Έ―ξετ―θττπ®ςβΊµ¶°Ίιξ ΰγοξξεγτ>  ¨Βςο―υσς―μιβ―ςυβω―±®Έ―ξετ―θττπ®ςβΊµµ³Ίιξ ΰδοίσταςτ§
>  ¨Βςο―υσς―μιβ―ςυβω―±®Έ―ξετ―θττπ®ςβΊµ΄²Ίιξ ΰσταςτ>  ¨Βςο―υσς―μιβ―ςυβω―±®Έ―ξετ―θττπ®ςβΊ±°³µΊιΰςερυεστ>  ¨Βςοχαστε―χαστε®ςβΊ²°Ίιξ ΰηετίζεεδ§
>
> And here i even tryed a code som other guy made, it is on this site:
> http://blog.patrick-morgan.net/2007/02/ruby-https-with-http-basic-auth.html
>
>
> So how do i get the file that are stored on a web page that require
> username and password?
> --
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I address authentication in my Twitter articles.  Here's one that show
you how to use basic_auth.

http://ruby.about.com/od/networking/qt/tweetruby.htm

Without seeing your code, it's hard to say where exactly you went wrong.