Download a file from a site that needs authentication

Ruby
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I have a membership to a web site that needs authentication before you
can download the file.
How can i download the file and authenticate so that it returns me the
file?
My initial research suggest i need to use basic http authentication but
I am not sure how to use this to do what i want.

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No one ever needed to logon to a web site using basic http
authentication to access a file?
I would have thought this is quite a common task.

Azalar — wrote:

I have a membership to a web site that needs authentication before you
can download the file.
How can i download the file and authenticate so that it returns me the
file?
My initial research suggest i need to use basic http authentication but
I am not sure how to use this to do what i want.

3

From: “Azalar —” [email protected]

No one ever needed to logon to a web site using basic http
authentication to access a file?
I would have thought this is quite a common task.

http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/314766

Regards,

Bill

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2008/9/22 Azalar — [email protected]:

My initial research suggest i need to use basic http authentication but
I am not sure how to use this to do what i want.

require ‘open-uri’
open(“save.file”,“w”).write(open(url,:http_basic_authentication =>
[‘user’,‘pass’]).read)

Regards,

Park H.