How to do basic authentication over HTTPs in Ruby?

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After looking a lot, I've found some solutions that seem working, but not for me... For example, I have this script: ``` require 'net/http' require "net/https" @http=Net::HTTP.new('www.xxxxxxx.net', 443) @http.use_ssl = true @http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE @http.start() {|http| req = Net::HTTP::Get.new('/gb/PastSetupsXLS.asp?SR=31,6') req.basic_auth 'my_user', 'my_password' response = http.request(req) print response.body } ``` When I run it, it gives me a page that requests for authentication, but if I write the following URL in the browser, I get into the website without problems: ``` https://my_user:my_password@www.xxxxxxx.net/gb/PastSetupsXLS.asp?SR=31,6 ``` I have also tried with open-uri: ``` module OpenSSL module SSL remove_const :VERIFY_PEER end end OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_PEER = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE def download(full_url, to_here) writeOut = open(to_here, "wb") writeOut.write(open(full_url, :http_basic_authentication=>["my_user", "my_password"]).read) writeOut…

Accepted Answer

I wrote a piece of code based on examples given in the Net::HTTP docs and tested it on my local WAMP server - it works fine. Here's what I have:

```
require 'net/http'
require 'openssl'

uri = URI('https://localhost/')

Net::HTTP.start(uri.host, uri.port,
  :use_ssl => uri.scheme == 'https', 
  :verify_mode => OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE) do |http|

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new uri.request_uri
  request.basic_auth 'matt', 'secret'

response = http.request request # Net::HTTPResponse object

puts response
  puts response.body
end
```

And my `.htaccess` file looks like this:

```
AuthName "Authorization required"
AuthUserFile c:/wamp/www/ssl/.htpasswd
AuthType basic
Require valid-user
```

My `.htpasswd` is just a one liner generated with `htpasswd -c .htpasswd matt` for password "secret". When I run my code I get "200 OK" and contents of index.html. If I remove the `request.basic_auth` line, I get 401 error.

UPDATE:

As indicated by @stereoscott in the comments, the `:verify_mode` value I used in the example (`OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE`) is not safe for production.

All available options listed in the OpenSSL::SSL::SSLContext docs are: VERIFY_NONE, VERIFY_PEER, VERIFY_CLIENT_ONCE, VERIFY_FAIL_IF_NO_PEER_CERT, out of which (according to the OpenSSL docs) only the first two ones are used in the client mode.

So `VERIFY_PEER` should be used on production, which is the default btw, so you can skip it entirely.

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