Eric Hodel
9/27/2007 4:11:00 PM
On Sep 27, 2007, at 07:39 , M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> Eric Hodel wrote:
>> On Sep 26, 2007, at 19:25 , M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
>>> Are you behind a firewall? I'm not sure RubyGems is sneaky enough to
>>> deal with proxy servers.
>> RubyGems has dealt with proxy servers for ages.
> Yes, but there's a special place in Heck reserved for the guy who
> designed the NTLM proxy servers :). I have to use "aps", which is
> written in (gasp) Python when I'm behind one of those, and mess
> with "http_proxy" environment variables. Can't RubyGems do that
> directly? Just ask me, "what's your NTLM password" and go get gems?
> Apparently not. Then again, neither can ActiveState's Perl Package
> Manager.
If Net::HTTP can do it, RubyGems can do it. If you want RubyGems to
work with NTLM, make Net::HTTP work with NTLM.
(There is a patch in the tracker, but it looks to be windows-only.)