Basic and Form Authentication with Mechanize (Ruby)
Solution 1
auth
method will be removed in mechanize release 3, so it must be replaced by add_auth and provide the URI where those credentials apply.
require 'rubygems'
require 'mechanize'
agent = Mechanize.new
agent.user_agent_alias = 'Windows Mozilla'
agent.add_auth('http://example.com', 'username', 'password')
agent.get('http://example.com') do |page|
puts page.title
end
Solution 2
Use Mechanize#auth
require 'rubygems'
require 'mechanize'
require 'logger'
agent = WWW::Mechanize.new { |a| a.log = Logger.new("mech.log") }
agent.user_agent_alias = 'Windows Mozilla'
agent.auth('username', 'password')
agent.get('http://example.com') do |page|
puts page.title
end
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Updated on June 12, 2022Comments
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Admin almost 2 years
I'm trying to log into a site on the company intranet which has a basic authentication popup dialog box and form based authentication. This is the code I'm using (which results in a 401 => Net::HTTPUnauthorized error):
require 'rubygems' require 'mechanize' require 'logger' agent = WWW::Mechanize.new { |a| a.log = Logger.new("mech.log") } agent.user_agent_alias = 'Windows Mozilla' agent.basic_auth('username','password') agent.get('http://example.com') do |page| puts page.title end
This results in a 401 => Net::HTTPUnauthorized error. Below is mech.log info:
I, [2011-03-13T17:25:21.900631 #22128] INFO -- : Net::HTTP::Get: /index.asp?LogIn=yes&action=7 D, [2011-03-13T17:25:21.901631 #22128] DEBUG -- : request-header: accept-language => en-us,en;q=0.5 D, [2011-03-13T17:25:21.901631 #22128] DEBUG -- : request-header: accept => */* D, [2011-03-13T17:25:21.901631 #22128] DEBUG -- : request-header: user-agent => Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030516 Mozilla Firebird/0.6 D, [2011-03-13T17:25:21.902631 #22128] DEBUG -- : request-header: connection => keep-alive D, [2011-03-13T17:25:21.902631 #22128] DEBUG -- : request-header: accept-encoding => gzip,identity D, [2011-03-13T17:25:21.902631 #22128] DEBUG -- : request-header: host => example.com D, [2011-03-13T17:25:21.902631 #22128] DEBUG -- : request-header: accept-charset => ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 D, [2011-03-13T17:25:21.903631 #22128] DEBUG -- : request-header: keep-alive => 300 D, [2011-03-13T17:25:22.813722 #22128] DEBUG -- : Read 24 bytes D, [2011-03-13T17:25:22.814722 #22128] DEBUG -- : response-header: content-type => text/html D, [2011-03-13T17:25:22.815722 #22128] DEBUG -- : response-header: connection => close D, [2011-03-13T17:25:22.815722 #22128] DEBUG -- : response-header: www-authenticate => Negotiate, NTLM, Basic realm="example.com" D, [2011-03-13T17:25:22.816722 #22128] DEBUG -- : response-header: date => Sun, 13 Mar 2011 11:55:21 GMT D, [2011-03-13T17:25:22.817722 #22128] DEBUG -- : response-header: server => Microsoft-IIS/5.0 D, [2011-03-13T17:25:22.817722 #22128] DEBUG -- : response-header: content-length => 24 I, [2011-03-13T17:25:22.819723 #22128] INFO -- : status: 401
At this point I'm only trying to get past the first basic authentication. I did notice one thing that is that the server is IIS and in the Mechanize documentation there is a public function called gen_auth_headers(), however in the code of the gem I'm using this function doesn't exist, plus what he is doing in the code is beyond me.
TIA, Nabs