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Reputation: 804

JSON parse from a Remote URL which requires a username and password in digest auth

I have a URL which points to JSON output, however it requires a username and password through a standard Apache pop-up authentication box. I tried to access this URL from my Rails controller:

result = JSON.parse(open("http://user:[email protected]/json").read)

However it isn't working. I have the following at the top of my controller:

require 'open-uri'
require 'json'

I just get an error which says "ArgumentError, userinfo not supported. [RFC3986]".

I tried also the Basic Auth code, however it doesn't work since I'm using Digest Auth:

open("http://...", :http_basic_authentication=>[user, password])

Upvotes: 1

Views: 914

Answers (1)

Johnson
Johnson

Reputation: 1490

I would use HTTPClient for this. It's another dependency but it makes RESTful requests with digest authentication super easy.

require "httpclient"

# foundational parts of your URI
base = "http://myurl.com"

# create a new http connection instance
http = HTTPClient.new

# set authentication on the connection
http.set_auth(base, "user", "pass")

# make your request
response = http.get("#{base}/json")

# parse the response's JSON into a Hash
JSON.parse response.body

Upvotes: 1

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