Download a file from a site that needs authentication

[Azalar ---]

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.

 

[Azalar ---]

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.

 

[Bill Kelly]

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

 

[Heesob Park]

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.

require 'open-uri'
open("save.file","w").write(open(url,:http_basic_authentication =>
['user','pass']).read)

Regards,

Park Heesob