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#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# Posterous.com API HTTP AUTH Example

require 'base64'
require 'open-uri'
require 'net/http'
 
user = '[email protected]'
password = 'password'
host = 'posterous.com'
path = '/api/newpost'
 
# build the header ourselves
auth_header = "Basic #{Base64.encode64("#{user}:#{password}")}"
open("http://#{host}#{path}", 'Authorization' => auth_header) do |r|
  puts r.read
end
 
# use ruby standard library in HTTP AUTH
Net::HTTP.start(host) do |http|
   req = Net::HTTP::Get.new(path)
   req.basic_auth user, password
   response = http.request(req)
   puts response.body
end