Comments on: Simple cPanel XML api call using Ruby

By: Enrique

Enrique — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 05:24:18 +0000

Awesome! Thanks for including ruby code to have multiple parts for header. I had the most challenging time finding an example to follow!

By: broncha

broncha — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:04:34 +0000

@Prachi: If you see the snippet above I have used the HTTP authentication method.In your case, it would be:


easy.headers={"Authorization"=>"Basic "+authStr+"\r\n",
                "Content-Type"=>"application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n"}

The authStr is base64 encoded string with colon separated username and password. Try with this code:


authStr = Base64.encode64("username:password")
easy = Curl::Easy.new('someurl')
easy.headers={"Authorization"=>"Basic "+authStr+"\r\n",
                "Content-Type"=>"application/x-www-form-urlencoded\r\n"}
easy.perform

By: Prachi

Prachi — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:28:10 +0000

Sorry for posting again, but I missed a little information in the previous comment. I get a “401 not authorized” error with that code snippet (I used the on_body handler to print the response).

By: Prachi

Prachi — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:23:06 +0000

Hi,
Thanks for the snippet! Works fine.. But there’s a little something that has been bothering me. I am using curb to access a page that requires HTTP authentication. The docs mention ‘username=’ and ‘password=’ methods to set the HTTP authentication username and password. But something like

easy = Curl::Easy.new('someurl') easy.username = 'username' easy.password = 'password' easy.perform

does not work. I even set the http_auth_types with

easy.http_auth_types = Curl::CURLAUTH_BASIC

I might be doing something silly here. Could you hep me out?