Question

http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib-1.8.7/libdoc/net/http/rdoc/Net/HTTP.html

After reading the doc very carefully, I’m writing the following code snippet for the autologin feature of my program:

url = URI.parse('http://localhost/login.aspx')
req = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url.path)
req.basic_auth 'username'

The target page asks only the correct user name, no password is needed in order to login, the basic_auth method requires two parameters, user name and password, if I leave one out, I’ll get the error, I tried to write it like this “req.basic_auth ‘username‘, ””, but I still cannot login.

Could anyone kindly give me a hint?

more info:
I also tried req.basic_auth ‘username’, ”, it didn’t seem to be working, I know this because there’s another line of line follow right after this one, which is basically doing auto form submission.
x = Net::HTTP.post_form(URI.parse(“http://localhost/NewTask.aspx”), params)
puts x.body

And the puts result came back with the redirect to login page body.

Answer 1

You can consider using ruby mechanize gem. a login example will be much simpler(from official site), for this one, you will not need to do the agent cert and private key thing:

require 'rubygems'
require 'mechanize'

# create Mechanize instance
agent = Mechanize.new

# set the path of the certificate file
agent.cert = 'example.cer'

# set the path of the private key file
agent.key = 'example.key'

# get the login form & fill it out with the username/password
login_form = agent.get("http://example.com/login_page").form('Login')
login_form.Userid = 'TestUser'
login_form.Password = 'TestPassword'

# submit login form
agent.submit(login_form, login_form.buttons.first)