Well, you may want to use HTTP basic auth mechanism of Net::HTTP library. Basically this is how i would do it:
require 'net/http'
req = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url.path) req.basic_auth("username","password") req.body = xml_query # contents the raw query req.content_type = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" req.content_length = xml_query.length
result = nil begin timeout(3) do _result = Net::HTTP.new(url.host,url.port).start { |http| http.request(req)} result = _result.body end rescue Timeout::Error result = nil rescue result = nil end
But probably you want a much simpler solution, another solution would be to use SimpleHttp library.
str = SimpleHttp.get URI.parse("http://username:password@www.example.com")
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