>>>>> "A" == Alexander Bokovoy <a.bokovoy / sam-solutions.net> writes: A> That's good to hear. In meantime, I'm patching my Ruby packages for ALT A> Linux using this code and it works w/o problems. Well, I know nothing about all these things (www, http, ...) and probably I'll say stupidities, but it was not possible to make something like for GET proxy = Net::HTTP::Proxy($proxy_addr, $proxy_port) proxy.basic_auth 'account', 'password' proxy.start { ... } this will give the possibility to have another authentifcation mechanism Guy Decoux