Question

I’m using savon to communicate with a soap web service.
It all works well, and I now need to get the ruby code into production where we have to go through a proxy server.
This proxy server requires authentication.

So my question is, how can I go ahead to specify proxy server authentication details with savon?

Some further info:

I’ve figured out that you can specify a proxy server as such:

client = Savon::Client.new do
  ...
  http.proxy = "http://proxy.example.com"
end 

Looking through the code for savon, I found that the http variable in the client block refers to the following:

def http
  @http ||= HTTPI::Request.new
end

Unfortunately, going through the code for HTTPI::Request, I couldn’t see a way to specify authentication for the proxy itself. Here’s the code for the httpi request: https://github.com/rubiii/httpi/blob/master/lib/httpi/request.rb

Just to be clear: I’m not trying to do HTTP authentication, I’m attempting to perform proxy authentication.

When specifying the proxy server, I get the following error, because I can’t find a way to specify the proxy authentication credentials:

407 “Proxy Authentication Required”

Thanks in advance for any help.

Answer 1

Try this:
http.proxy = “http://username:password@host:port”